Putin urges SCO members to adopt common policy in Afghanistan following ’hasty’ US withdrawal

Subscribe to our channel! Russian President Vladimir Putin urged members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) to launch a common policy in Afghanistan following the ’hasty’ US troops’ withdrawal from the country, speaking through video conference at a meeting of SCO Heads of State held in Dushanbe on Friday. “Right now, our organisation is facing an urgent task of launching a common coordinated policy, which would take into account the serious risks related to the surge of tension in Afghanistan after the hasty pull-out, if not to say flight, of the US forces and their NATO allies from that country,“ said Putin.