Central Asia's relations with the Taliban

RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS - In Brief 20 Dec 2021 by Alex Teddy
The Collective Security Treaty Organization is carrying out military drills along the Afghan Border in December 2021. The CSTO comprises 6 former Soviet republics led by Russia. Uzbekistan is not in the CSTO but has been attending some CSTO conferences on Afghanistan. Russia would dearly like to see Uzbekistan - the most populous nation in the region - join the CSTO.The Kazakh, Turkmen, Kyrgyz and Uzbek embassies have functioned uninterrupted in Kabul since the city was taken by the Taliban in August 2021. The Russian Embassy has also been operating normally. However, no nation (not even Pakistan) has accorded formal recognition to the Taliban. Tajikistan does not have an embassy in Afghanistan now. The Tajiks are the chariest about the Taliban. The Tajik government fought a very bloody civil war in the 1990s against the Taliban's Tajik confreres. Tajikistan is openly hostile to the Taliban and accuses it of genocide against Afghans of Tajik ethnicity. But even then Tajikistan does not call for the overthrow of the Taliban: only that it form a more inclusive government. Moscow insists that exercises on the Afghan Border are not aimed at the Taliban but at other armed groups. Moscow enjoys a staggeringly cordial relationship with the Taliban bearing in mind it is still outlawed as a terrorist group in Russia.Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan are providing electricity to Afghanistan. The Taliban is not paying them but says it shall when it can. Perhaps the gratis electricity is Danegeld from these countries.All Central Asian nations except Tajikistan have sent aid to Afghanistan. But UN food aid has been allowed through by Tajikistan. The Uzbek and Turkmen foreign ...

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