TEHRAN, Jan 30 (NNN-FNA) — Afghan Foreign Minister Rangeen Dadfar Spanta dismissed any differences between Iran and Afghanistan, and highlighted good relations between the two neighboring states.
“We have good relations with Iran,” Spanta said in an interview with Bloomberg.
“There is no problem between Iran and Afghanistan. Iran has cooperated with Afghanistan in the past eight years for its reconstruction,” he added.
He stated that the presidents of Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan will meet soon in Tehran.
The remarks by the Afghan minister came after Tehran stayed away from the conference on Afghanistan held in London on Thursday.
Iran has always been a critic of the West’s militaristic approach towards the Afghan issue.
Tehran officially announced on Wednesday that it would not attend the London conference.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast told FNA that Iran will not take part in the London conference, and added, “The Islamic Republic of Iran does not assess its participation in the conference as useful and believes that continuing wrong approaches for resolving Afghanistan’s problems is unconstructive.” — NNN-FNA
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