ROME, 30 September 2021, (TON): An emergency G20 summit on the situation in Afghanistan will take place on 12 October. This was announced at a press conference by Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi.

The initiative for such a summit to discuss the situation in the country after the withdrawal of foreign troops within the framework of the NATO mission belongs to the Italian presidency of the Group of Twenty. Rome insists on involving Russia, China and Turkey in solving the problem.

Draghi twice discussed preparations for this summit by telephone with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The Italian prime minister said “I will tell you about the nearest international even-ts. An extraordinary summ-it on Afghanistan will take place on October 12.”

The Italian prime minister said “We need to look at the commonality of goals of all the G20 countries,” Draghi added. He specified that the country facing a humanitarian catastrophe primarily faces humanitarian goals. “This is a humanitarian catastrophe, the country has no external support. It is necessary that the richest countries do something.”

The second issue on the agenda of the emergency summit, according to Draghi, will be the discussion of what steps the G20 countries are ready to take so that Afghanistan does not again become a nest of international terrorism.