Russia is interested in broad cooperation with the international community to resolve the problems in war-ravaged Afghanistan, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday, Xinhua reported.
"Afghanistan is a huge problem for the international community, " Medvedv told a meeting with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
"Joint efforts being made today in order to establish peace, to form a modern political system, to make progress in eradicating terrorism and drug crimes on the soil that suffered much unite us and make us seek joint solutions to Afghanistan's problems," he said.
Ban, who is here to attend the Moscow conference on Afghanistan, said he was meeting with Medvedev at a time when the United Nations and Russia need to cooperate more closely in order to settle the problems on the agenda.
The UN secretary-general thanked the Russian president for Moscow's readiness to cooperate with the United States, in particular on Afghanistan.
The Moscow conference on Afghanistan was held under the auspices of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a regional security organization comprising Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
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