Afghan families fleeing from the districts of Malistan and Jaghori, because of the conflict between Taliban and Afghan forces, arrive at Ghazni, Afghanistan on November 14, 2018. MOSCOW, Sept. 16 Reuters - Members of a Russia-led Security Block that includes some countries who are close or adjacent to Afghanistan have no plans to host Afghan refugees amid the political and security crisis in the country, bloc member Kazakhstan said on Thursday.
The Collective Security Treaty Organisation CSTO includes three Central Asian states - Tajikistan, which has a long border with Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan - as well as several remote former republics.
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev took up the joint CSTO position in Tajikistan at a heads-of-staat meeting of the bloc on Thursday that the placement of foreign refugees or Afghan military bases on our territories is unacceptable his office said in a statement.
Two more Central Asian countries border Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, but not CSTO members. However, Uzbekistan has also said it would only allow short-term transit of refugees by planes to third countries.