Afghan official: We have not accepted US security treaty
ISNA - Iranian Students' News Agency
1390/01/30
04-19-2011
11:08:34
News Code :9001-13467
TEHRAN (ISNA)-Afghan Senate Deputy Chairman al-Haj Mohammad Alam said Afghan people have not accepted US-Afghan security treaty.
"Afghans have always been against presence of foreign powers inside their soil throughout the history and they have not accepted the so-called US-Afghan security treaty," he said in a meeting with an Iranian delegation.
"Today, what is important for us is expansion of relations with Iran in different political, cultural, economic domains as well as goods transit and that presence of outsiders only adds to the problems."
"There are more insecurity and drugs anywhere that NATO and Taliban forces are deployed and we hope that Iran will help in improving infrastructures of bilateral relations," he noted.
Also an Iranian Parliament Member Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh attending the meeting pointed to Afghan people's concerns on the treaty draft prepared by the US and said, "Americans have changed Afghanistan into a military base in the draft and are imposing a kind of capitulation to Afghans."
He expressed hope foreigners would pull out forces from Afghanistan ahead of imposing cruel treaties to the country.
"Existence of foreign bases in Afghanistan, changes borders of the two countries into the center of ever-existing tension and unrest."
Iran and Afghanistan parliamentary groups also signed an agreement to create bilateral friendly groups.
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