TEHRAN- The Iranian president’s special envoy on Afghanistan affairs, Hassan Kazemi Qomi, said that the security, stability, and welfare of the Afghan people are shared concerns among the surrounding nations.

In a post on X on Sunday after meeting in the Qatari city of Doha with his counterparts from Pakistan, China, and Russia, respectively, Zamir Kabulov, Yue Xiaoyong, and Asif Ali Khan Durrani, he added that the regional contact committee has mostly been successful in influencing issues that affect the security and stability of Afghanistan.

On February 18, Special Envoys on Afghanistan appointed by the UN began a two-day conference in Doha to deliberate on Resolution 2679, which deals with a “commitment to the sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity and national unity of Afghanistan.”

The Doha session on Afghanistan is being hosted by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. It is the second UN-organized meeting on the topic in less than a year. Leaders of the Taliban have declined to attend the conference because they were not invited to the May 2023 session.

Defending the Afghan people is important to Tehran’s diplomacy, Kazemi Qomi stated in a Sunday meeting with Suhail Shaheen, the director of the Taliban political office in Doha.

He stated that cooperation between the peoples of the two adjacent nations has taken place in a number of areas, including religion and culture.

In a separate post on X on Saturday, he also stressed that he had “explicit but very constructive” discussions with Tomas Niklasson, the Special Representative of the European Union for Afghanistan (EUSE).

“If Europe wants to help the Afghan people, it should not take humanitarian aid as hostage for its regional relations,” Kazemi Qomi told the European diplomat.

During the meeting, he highlighted that Europe should not tether sending humanitarian aid to Afghanistan to its regional affiliations.

He also disclosed the details regarding the meeting on his online platform. He wrote, “Pivotal emphasis was placed on the necessity for Europe to refrain from tying humanitarian aid to its relationship with the regional alliances if it genuinely aims to support the people of Afghanistan.”

The Taliban stormed back to power in August 2021 after making sweeping advances across the country, which triggered a messy withdrawal by the United States-led foreign forces as well as the rapid collapse of the country's security forces.

The U.S. invaded Afghanistan in October 2001 following the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, despite the fact that no Afghan national was involved in the attacks. Hundreds of thousands of Afghans died in the U.S. war of aggression on the country.

After its withdrawal, Washington imposed sanctions on Afghanistan and blocked its assets.

Foreign aid has also declined dramatically since then and the country's key central bank assets have been seized by the United States, compounding one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.

Also on Wednesday, during an interview with the private Shamshad TV at the Iranian Embassy in Kabul, Kazemi Qomi noted that security and stability in the region is premised on carrying out the collective action in the domain of security.

Qomi also underscored the need for vigilance of regional countries against anti-security and destabilizing schemes of enemies.

Given the recent border incidents in the region, he stated, “Security is not fun for any country or establishment, and it is the undeniable right of any system to defend its land, people, and national security.”

“It is possible that a region may not be under the control of a central government, and then what happened was essentially a response against a threatening point,” Kazemi Qomi continued.