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The Taliban won the backing from top U.S. adversaries in the call for international humanitarian aid to assist Afghans , as concerns of economic collapse grow. Russia, China , Iran, Pakistan, India and five formerly Soviet nations issued a joint statement Wednesday following talks with the Taliban in Moscow, and pointedly called on the U.S. to “shoulder” the costs of financing humanitarian needs in Afghanistan. “The core burden of post-conflict economic and financial reconstruction and development of Afghanistan must be shouldered by troop-based actors which were in the country for the past 20 years,” the statement read. The participants in...
