never heard such an estimation. you wouldn t say so? that we are glad that it s happened? no, of course not. it is definitely a failure for the coalition to be in afghanistan for 20 years and doing nothing. but on the other hand, there is no idea and no way to dance over the ashes, because we now have to cope with consequences and to limit damage of what has happened. and the damage is enormous, of course. but the reason i assume that you were regarding it as a positive is because your colleague, your ambassador in kabul, dmitry zhirnov, he said, the mood in kabul can be described as one of cautious hope. there was a bad regime which disappeared. people are now hopeful. they say it cannot be worse, so it should be better. my colleague, ambassador in afghanistan, has said that these initial hours after taliban has entered kabul, he saw that embassy
ambassador andrew kelin, welcome to hardtalk. your government appears to view the overthrow of a democratically elected government in afghanistan by a theocratic islamist militant group as an overall positive. why? oh, i wouldn t say so, and i never heard such an estimation. you wouldn t say so? that we are glad that it s happened? no, of course not. it is definitely a failure for the coalition to be in afghanistan for 20 years and doing nothing. but on the other hand, there is no idea and no way to dance over the ashes, because we now have to cope with consequences and to limit damage of what has happened.
government in afghanistan by a theocratic islamist militant group as an overall positive. why? oh, i wouldn t say so, and i never heard such an estimation. you wouldn t say so? that we are glad that it s happened? no, of course not. it is definitely a failure for the coalition to be in afghanistan for 20 years and doing nothing. but on the other hand, there is no idea and no way to dance over the ashes, because we now have to cope with consequences and to limit damage of what has happened. and the damage is enormous, of course. but the reason i assume that you were regarding it as a positive is because your colleague, your ambassador in kabul, dmitry zhirnov, he said, the mood in kabul can be described as one of cautious hope. there was a bad regime which disappeared. people are now hopeful. they say it cannot be worse, so it should be better.
so, russia did appear to be listening after all. uh, you know that what has come out of the meeting between putin and biden on the issue of cyber attacks, it was the beginning of a serious conversation on the level of experts, meeting between representatives of the security council of two countries, and this is a professional conversation. and i regret that we do not have such a professional conversation with the united kingdom because the united kingdom still prefers to do it via the newspapers and all of that type. if the uk. if you have a quote unquote professional conversation, you re prepared to stop the cyber attacks? is that what you re saying? if there is an accusation, we are prepared to deal with it professionally, but not via the media. and there are context, there is a source how to deal with that. many times. but wouldn t the easiest thing to be, if you truly want to improve relations, just to unilaterally stop these attacks? who says that we.? it is you who are saying tha
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