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Afghan extremism will spread to India,Central Asia: Mottaki |
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 Munich:The Munich Security Conference brings together top defence experts from around the world. Chinese foreign minister has attended for the first time the 46-year-old annual forum, dubbed the "Davos of security policy."This new forum is increasingly focusing on global aspects .Iran's foreign minister warned that Taliban-associated extremism in Afghanistan is blossoming because of the Western intervention there and is set to spread to India, Central Asia and Arab states, .
"The policies imposed in recent years ... in security, fighting against extremism and drug traffic - the policies in this respect are all defeated and failed," Mottaki told a at the prestigious Munich Security Conference.
Taliban-linked extremism "can be divided into two (regional) branches: one is going to spread to the Arab countries, the other to India and Central Asia," Mottaki warned.
Already 3,000 soldiers and police of Iran has been killed by drug traffickers moving from Afghanistan across Iran .
After years of conflict in Afghanistan, the West is growing concerned that Islamist terrorist groups are looking to set up new bases in areas such as Yemen and Somalia.
Russia, meanwhile, warns that terrorists are launching new campaigns in the states of the North Caucasus.
The weekend meeting was set to debate issues including the NATO mission in Afghanistan, in the presence of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
Wolfgang Ischinger, head of the security conference,is of the view that security challenges should be dealt with from a global perspective, which includes Asia .
Chinese foreign minister views
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said that the foreign minister would elaborate China's positions on issues such as energy and transport security, climate change, nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament and NATO's new strategic concept.
The three-day security conference, which started on Friday, drew more than 300 high-ranking international participants.
Issues such as energy security, arms control, nuclear non-proliferation, Afghanistan, NATO's new strategic concept and Iran's nuclear program are high on the agenda.
Besides traditional topics of transatlantic and European security, the agenda of the conference for the first time included issues of resource security and the global shift of powers, according to Ischinger.
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Saturday, 06 Feb 2010, 10:56 [IST] |
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