Historical experience shows that a crisis causes either a recovery or catastrophic consequences.
I started, you know, to work as a diplomat during the Soviet days, and in spite of ideology being very high on the Communist Party agenda, I can assure you that in practical terms, we have always been trying to be pragmatic.
We provide transit facilities, we cooperate in equipping the Afghan army and security forces with arms and helicopters, we cooperate in training officers for law enforcement agencies.
We have become stronger economically; we have been successfully resolving the social problems, raising the level of living – the standards of living – of the population.
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