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Russia to open Kabul humanitarian center MOSCOW - Russia plans to open a hospital and a center for coordinating humanitarian aid in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday, a news report said. "First Russian doctors will help the people of Kabul and in the future mobile brigades will go to other regions," Deputy Emergency Situations Minister Valery Vostrotin was quoted as saying Friday by the news agency Interfax. The hospital is expected to be able to treat up to 300 people a day and 33 doctors have arrived to staff it, Interfax reported. The aid center's main task is to be coordination of shipments of humanitarian aid to people in Afghanistan, the report said. The return of Russians to Kabul following their pullout in 1989 at the end of a disastrous 10-year war has raised questions about whether Russia aims to pull Afghanistan into its sphere of influence. Russia intends to establish full diplomatic relations with post-Taliban Afghanistan, Russian envoy Alexander Oblov was quoted as telling Interfax in Kabul. "We must restore the whole range of bilateral relations in the political, economic, humanitarian and cultural areas as well as in the sphere of military-technical cooperation," Oblov said, according to the report. -AP ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
