MP: Afghans have ability to maintain sustainable security in their own country

Tehran, June 19, IRNA – Head of Majlis national security and foreign policy commission said that today Afghans are able to establish sustainable security in their country without interference of aliens.

He was speaking with Afghanistan parliament vice speaker here on Saturday.

According to the report of Majlis Media Department, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, in a meeting with Ahmad Behzad, by referring to the historical, religious and cultural commonalities between the two countries said that Iran and Afghanistan, as two neighboring Muslim countries, are in fact members of one family.

Expressing pleasure with holding a successful election in Afghanistan, Boroujerdi said that Majlis is ready to give its experiences in the field of legislative and control to Afghanistan parliament.

He called Afghans as an intelligent and hardworking nation and stressed that Afghans had the ability to defeat Soviet super power by their own wisdom and now can establish a sustainable security in their own country without interference of the aliens.

Ahmad Behzad, for his part, appreciated Iran's government and people for three decades of support and help for Afghan nation and added Afghans will never forget Iranian hospitality and support during long years of war in Afghanistan.

He also said that Afghans consider Iran's security as their own country's security.

Behzad concluded that establishment of security and stability in the region is impossible without participation of friendly countries such as Iran, adding that we should expand regional security through a framework of regional cooperation so that the alien forces cannot have any justification for their presence in the region./end