INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has claimed that American forces, during their 20 years presence in Afghanistan, were not fighting
terrorism, adding they created organizations which later became al-Qaeda.Lavrov made the remarks in an interview Sunday for a documentary
film dedicated to the 25th anniversary of NATO&s aggression against Yugoslavia.He recalled that after the September 11, 2001 attacks, US
forces marched to Afghanistan with a &sympathetic& UN Security Council.No one objected or called the deployment of US-led troops to
Afghanistan an aggression or invasion,& he said
&Everyone understood that the perpetrators of a terrorist attack like this had to be held accountable.However, 20 years in Afghanistan have
shown that the Americans were not fighting terrorism, Lavrov claimed.They created agencies and organisations there, which later became
Then they began to use it to punish and provoke undesirable regimes in the Middle East and other regions,& he added.The remarks come two
days after an attack on a concert hall near Moscow left 137 people dead and 182 others injured
Daesh claimed responsibility for the attack.The post US forces were not fighting terrorism in Afghanistan: Lavrov first appeared on Ariana
