Overview
- Iran hosted special envoys from Pakistan, China, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, with Afghanistan invited but declining to attend.
- Participants agreed to deepen coordination on political, economic and security issues and called for Afghanistan’s integration into regional frameworks.
- The countries urged lifting sanctions and releasing frozen assets, encouraged trade and economic ties with Afghanistan, and opposed any foreign military presence.
- Pakistan’s special representative pressed Afghanistan’s de facto authorities to remove all terrorist groups and raised concerns over threats originating from Afghan territory.
- Delegates set next steps with a foreign ministers’ meeting planned in Ashgabat and a follow-up envoys’ session in Islamabad in March, though past efforts have yielded limited results.