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Russia FM Visits Afghanistan

Russia's foreign minister comes to Afghanistan on Monday promising that Russia aims to help rebuild the country from 23 years of war.

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Russia's foreign minister comes to Afghanistan on Monday promising that Russia aims to help rebuild the country from 23 years of war.

Ivanov on Sunday promised that the humanitarian focus will continue.

"We intend to cooperate in the political and economic rehabilitation of Afghanistan," he said in New Delhi, India, according to the Russian news agency Interfax.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said Sunday that a videotape had recently surfaced showing al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden together with Chechen warlord Khattab, Russian news reports said.

Russia likely also has larger interests rooted in its Afghanistan policy. In his statement in India on Afghan rehabilitation, the "we" referred to Russia and India, and India has been a focus of Ivanov's aims of developing a "multi-polar world" in which Russia and other countries cooperate to balance what the Kremlin sees as U.S. domination of world affairs.

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