‘NATO transit to Afghanistan can be barred’

LONDON/MOSCOW: The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) should not be able to use Russian routes to transit supplies and equipment to Afghanistan because Russia has suspended military co-operation with the Western alliance, said Moscow’s Ambassador to Kabul Zamir Kabulov in an interview published on Tuesday.

Speaking to The Times from the Afghan capital, Kabulov said increased tensions between Russia and the West over Moscow’s recent assault on Georgia could lead Moscow to review other such agreements.

Meanwhile, Russia’s NATO envoy Dmitry Rogozin said Moscow did not plan to suspend NATO’s use of Russian land routes to transit non-military supplies and equipment to the alliance’s troops in Afghanistan. “We do not plan to halt overland transport to Afghanistan,” Rogozin told journalists in Moscow, but listed numerous areas of co-operation with NATO that would be frozen. afp
Daily Times