DUSHANBE. Sept 16 (Interfax) - Tajik President Emomali Rahmon and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi have expressed concern over the situation in Afghanistan at a meeting, the Tajik presidential press service said on Thursday.
The Chinese foreign minister has arrived in Dushanbe for a meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
"Concern over the complicated military-political situation in the neighboring country, Afghanistan, was expressed at the meeting. It was underlined that Tajikistan, which shares a long border with Afghanistan and has a common language and history with the people of that country, cannot stay indifferent to its fate," the press service said.
"Tajikistan is committed to the restoration of lasting peace and stability in the neighboring country," it said.
According to the press service, the sides lauded the high level of bilateral cooperation in the political, economic, cultural, and humanitarian fields and the provision of security and discussed further development and expansion of relations in trade, industries, energy, agriculture, and transport and attraction of Chinese investments in the Tajik economy.