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confirmed Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov, during the

meeting with

his counterpart Afghan Amir Khan Mottaki in Kabul to Tashkent to

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same position of The rest of the northern neighbor countries.

The five Central Asian countries (Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan) were supportive and sanctuaries for the armed opposition, formerly known as the Northern Alliance, against the Taliban movement in the 1990s, and then opened their airspace to the United States prior to its invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, and the situation changed after 2015 when it opened These countries are channels of communication with the Taliban, due to the movement's presence near its borders in the Afghan provinces bordering Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.

Some Central Asian countries such as Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan seem open to economic cooperation only, while the matter is different with Tajikistan, which may rely on Russian security support if the Taliban tries to transfer chaos into Tajikistan.

The Taliban government adopts a policy of openness to the countries of Central Asia, which reflects positively on the relationship with them (Reuters)

Ethnic extension with a new politics

After the fall of Ashraf Ghani's government, a number of former government officials went to these countries due to the ethnic extension between the northern states in Afghanistan and at least in 3 Central Asian countries.

General Abdul Rashid Dostum and General Ata Muhammad went to Uzbekistan, while Amrullah Saleh, the outgoing first vice president of Afghanistan, and Ahmed Masoud, son of former Afghan commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, moved to Tajikistan.

Attention is directed to the Central Asian countries and their future policy towards Afghanistan after the Taliban's return to power in Kabul. There is consensus among them that the region is going through unusual circumstances, but the mechanism for dealing with Afghanistan varies from one country to another.

Kazakhstan sees the country's main priority as overcoming potential security threats from Afghanistan and preventing the spread of terrorism, extremism and illegal immigration.

Uzbekistan confirms the continuation of its long-term contacts with the Taliban, to ensure the security of Uzbekistan. Relations between the two sides date back to two years ago, when the situation in Afghanistan prompted the Uzbek authorities to start talks with the Taliban.

The visit of Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdul Aziz Kamilov comes for this purpose, and that Uzbekistan wants to invest in its relations with the Taliban, to prevent security threats from reaching its territory, and to renew the Taliban's promises to control the Islamic movement of Uzbekistan from expanding to its borders.

A source in the Afghan Foreign Ministry who participated in the meeting of the Uzbek Foreign Minister with his Afghan counterpart Amir Khan Muttaki told Al Jazeera Net, "I noticed that the Uzbek authorities want to establish good relations with the new Afghan government, and Minister Kamilov said: When we think about relations with you, we do not look at other parties, and we do not care about observations Rather, we build these relations on the basis of common interests, and support Afghanistan’s position in international forums, so that the Islamic Emirate will gain its position in the international community.”

The Uzbek authorities consider that the regime change in Afghanistan does not affect their attitude towards investments in Afghanistan.

The source added that "the new government expects Uzbekistan to help open its borders and airports to Afghans who want to leave Afghan territory, because international airlines do not want to organize flights to Afghanistan."


 There is no recognition without a comprehensive government

After the fall of Ashraf Ghani's government, Tajik President Emomali Rakhmonov chose a position that the new rulers in Kabul did not expect. He said that Tajikistan would not recognize an Afghan government that did not represent all ethnic components in Afghanistan.

Rakhmonov's statements caused an uproar among the new rulers, who considered them an interference in Afghan affairs.

Acting Afghan Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Salam Hanafi told Al Jazeera Net, "Every action is followed by a stronger reaction, and the Tajik president should care about the situation of his country, and recognize the rights of the ethnicities in Tajikistan."

After this verbal escalation between the two sides, the Taliban and Tajikistan mobilized their soldiers near the common border.

Central Asian affairs expert Humayun Rahmani told Al Jazeera Net that "Tajikistan's position on the recent transformation in Afghanistan can be interpreted as being concerned about the presence of Tajik fighters among Taliban militants, and fearing that they would attack Tajik territory, and these statements came and military exercises were conducted on the border with Afghanistan as a proactive step to prevent the transfer of chaos to its lands.

As mentioned previously, opponents of the Taliban government, such as Amrullah Saleh, the outgoing first vice president, the son of the late leader Ahmed Shah Massoud and others, resorted to Tajikistan with the aim of forming a resistance front to rule the Taliban movement.

And about that, a former officer in the Afghan intelligence told Al-Jazeera Net that "there is an attempt by the intelligence services in the region to form an alliance, in the Tajik capital, Dushanbe, that includes former leaders of the Tajiks, Hazaras and Uzbeks, taking advantage of the Tajik president's hostility to the Taliban movement."

The priority for the stability of the region

Experts in the Afghan affairs believe that these attempts will fail because the region and Afghanistan cannot tolerate the continuation of the war, and because Afghanistan's neighbors want to establish a good relationship with the new government.

The advisor to the outgoing Afghan president, Dr. Tariq Farhadi, says that "what matters to the neighbors is the stability of Afghanistan, not who rules it, and the visit of Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdul Aziz Kamilov is the best proof of that."

Farhadi adds to Al Jazeera Net, "There is a perception among Afghanistan's neighbors that the stability of Afghanistan is key to development projects, and what is reported about forming a resistance front against the Taliban in Tajikistan is not practical because it is a poor country, and it cannot implement its agenda outside its borders, and is not strong and rich to the point of hosting resistance against the new Afghan government and provide it with the necessary support, and agreed to host the Russian military base because it is weak.”


sensitive border areas

A source in the Afghan Foreign Ministry stated that the government called on all fighters belonging to the Central Asian countries to stay away from the border areas with those countries in order to avoid creating any problem.

The source confirmed to Al-Jazeera Net that the government informed at least two countries, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, of its desire to maintain all the agreements signed between it and the previous government in the field of energy and the project to transport gas from Central Asia to India, because it serves the interests of the Afghan people, as stated in a meeting with Muttaki with the Turkmen ambassador.

The security tension in the northern states constitutes a fertile environment for the transmission of chaos to the Central Asian countries bordering Afghanistan. The bombing that ISIS claimed in Kunduz Province is an indication of the presence of ISIS near the borders of these countries.

On this, writer and political analyst Humayun Rahmani told Al Jazeera Net that "what happened in Kunduz state from targeting the mosque indicates that ISIS has reached the border areas with the countries of Central Asia, and this calls for the new government and Central Asian countries to work to fight it, because everyone knows that The organization has an expansionist policy, unlike the Taliban, and what is happening between Kabul and Tajikistan does not serve this cause, and foreign parties will enter the line and exploit the presence of the organization to fish in troubled waters.