India on Tuesday joined the Taliban regime, Pakistan, China and Russia to oppose United States President Donald Trump’s attempt to re-establish control over the Bagram air base in Afghanistan.

A joint statement issued after the seventh meeting of the Moscow Format consultations said that the participants “called unacceptable the attempts by countries to deploy their military infrastructure in Afghanistan and neighbouring states, since this does not serve the interests of regional peace and stability”.

The joint statement did not mention Bagram explicitly.

The Moscow Format is a regional diplomatic forum set up in 2017 to establish dialogue among Afghanistan’s neighbours and other major stakeholders. The platform mainly works on promoting peace and development in Afghanistan.

The meet

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