Afghanistan, Kabul, 3 September / Trend corr. A.Hakimi / The Foreign Ministry on 3 September stated that some media reports on dispatching Russian trainers to train Afghan police were groundless.
The reports urging that Russia agreed
to dispatch 226 officers to train Afghan police are
groundless and the Foreign Ministry rejects it, a
statement released here by the Foreign Ministry said.
Citing London-registered
The Times several Afghan newspapers have reported that the Russian President in a meeting with his
counterpart within the framework of the Shanghai
Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Tajikistan last week agreed to help
Afghanistan in providing training to its police. However,
the Afghan Foreign Ministry in the statement added
that talks between the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe and Russia over
conduct of training for Afghan Border Police
are going on.
The United State and Germany currently hold a lead
role in conduct of training for the Afghan
National Police in the war-torn nation.
President Hamid Karzai who met his Russian counterpart at SCO summit in
Dushanbe last week invited him to visit Afghanistan and the Russian president, accepted the invitation in principle, according to the Afghan Foreign
Ministry
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