Moscow is ready to boost support to the Afghan security forces in their campaign against Daesh, the Russian foreign ministry has said.

The comments by the Russian foreign ministry come as Afghan acting foreign minister Salahuddin Rabbani is in Russia for talks aimed at coordinating actions on bilateral ties between the two countries on some key issues including political, military, economic and trade relations.

“Meetings are expected to focus on bilateral relations, InshaAllah (God willing) and outcomes of the trip could have positive impacts on enhancing the relations between the two countries,” CEO Abdullah Abdullah said on Monday.

In the meantime, the Afghan Ministry of Interior (MoI) has said that Afghanistan supports any move that can help eliminate the terrorist group in the region and the world.

“We welcome any move which can help to weaken terrorist groups especially Daesh. But we should not forget that the Afghan security forces have inflicted major blows to Daesh,” said MoI deputy spokesman Najib Danish.

Some circles claim that over the past fifteen years, Kabul has failed to come up with a strong strategy to mend ties with Russia. Karzai and Ghani both are blamed for their failure to mend relations with Russia over the past fifteen years.

“The uncle of Mr. Karzai (former Afghan president Hamid Karzai) was serving as ambassador there and he also failed to bring the ties back on track. Now that Dr. Ashraf Ghani appointed his uncle there, he also disappointed our neighbor; we heard that for a long period of time he stayed in Kabul and did not return to Russia,” said Sayed Eshaq Gailani, chairman of the Nahzat-e-Hambastagi Milli Afghanistan party.

But Afghanistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) believes that the complexity of the issues in the region cannot be resolved by a single country.

“It is not the question of foreign policy failure, security in the region is much more complicated and it is difficult to address these issues only through foreign policy. Main parts of the security aspects in the region are related to wider international issues and these issues are outside the circle of Afghanistan’s foreign policy,” said Faramarz Tammanna, head of Afghanistan Center for Strategic Studies at MoFA.

After assuming office as president, Ghani ordered the appointment of his uncle Qayoum Kochai as Afghan ambassador to Russia.