Tajik President, Lukashenko discuss Afghanistan

STORY: Tajikistan Lukashenko CSTO Afghanistan - Tajik President, Lukashenko discuss Afghanistan

LENGTH: 02:48

FIRST RUN: 1351

RESTRICTIONS: Part no access Belarus

TYPE: Russian/Natsound

SOURCE: TAJIK STATE TV, BELARUSIAN STATE TV AND RADIO COMPANY

STORY NUMBER: 4344336

DATELINE: 16 September 2021 - Dushanbe

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TAJIK STATE TV

Dushanbe, Tajikistan - 16 September 2021

1. Wide of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation meeting

2. Tajik President Emomali Rahmon speaking at meeting

3. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan

4. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Emomali Rahmon, Tajik President:

++INCLUDES CUTAWAYS++

"Announced (by Taliban) composition of the interim government (in Afghanistan) ignores political, ethnic and language diversity and gender equality. It means that in upcoming two- or three-years propagation of extremist ideology will intensify and the possibility of expansion of these destructive ideas to the neighbouring regions will increase manyfold."

5. Kyrgyz President Sadyr Zhaparov, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Secretary-General of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation Stanislav Zas

6. Screen showing Russian President Vladimir Putin taking part in meeting virtually

7. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Emomali Rahmon, Tajik President: ++ENDS ON CUTAWAY++

"Using political and military vacuum, various terrorist groups strengthen their positions in the country. Afghanistan is turning on our eyes into a hotbed of international terrorism. According to information we receive from various regions of Afghanistan, real situation on the place is completely different. It's many times worse than the one presented by media."

8. Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko

9. Wide of the meeting

BELARUSIAN STATE TV AND RADIO COMPANY - NO ACCESS BELARUS

Dushanbe, Tajikistan - 16 September 2021

10. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Alexander Lukashenko, Belarusian President: ++INCLUDES CUTAWAY OF MEDIA++

"They try to characterize incidents with refugees and migrants at the border as international hybrid threat. They make active attempts to shift responsibility for migrant issues onto transit countries. It all happens right after US and their NATO allies messed up in Afghanistan and Middle East countries."

11. Kyrgyz President Sadyr Zhaparov

12. Media

13. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Alexander Lukashenko, Belarusian President:

"At the same time, Western countries close their eyes on blatant violations of their own obligations on human rights. Over last week, incidents take place almost at daily basis at the borders with Poland and Lithuania. During these incidents, refugees from Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria are pushed to the Belarus territory in a harsh and cruel way with the use of arms."

14. Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev

15. Media

16. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Alexander Lukashenko, Belarusian President:

"The West's double standards show up in active attempts to hide from migrant issues behind a fence at Western border of CSTO. Allocation of hundreds of millions of dollars is being discussed. What a worthless fool's errand."

TAJIK STATE TV

Dushanbe, Tajikistan - 16 September 2021

17. Wide of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation meeting

STORYLINE:

Tajikistan's President Emomali Rahmon and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday took part in a meeting with leaders of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation to discuss the situation in Afghanistan.

Rahmon said during the meeting that he believed the "political and military vacuum" was allowing terrorist groups to strengthen their positions in the country, tuning it into what he called "a hotbed of international terrorism".

Lukashenko meanwhile accused U.S. and NATO of allowing massive influx of refugees to Europe which authorities are reluctant to accommodate.

"Refugees from Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria are pushed to the Belarus territory in a harsh and cruel way with the use of arms," said Lukashenko.

Thousands of people in Afghanistan have been looking for ways to leave the country after the Taliban took control of Kabul in a swift power grab, seeking to escape what they see as a return to ruthless fundamentalist rule.

Hundreds have headed to the Central Asian nations of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, which share a border with Afghanistan.

Poland - like Lithuania - has seen a surge of migrants arriving across its border with Belarus in recent weeks, prompting the government in Warsaw to accuse President Lukashenko of sending migrants from Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere across the border in a "hybrid war" to create instability in the 27-nation EU.

In response Poland has begun building a barbed wire fence along the border, a measure which Lukashenko called "a worthless fool's errand".

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