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Coalition should do more to help Afghanistan - security official

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"More active efforts are needed from coalition forces working in Afghanistan - the United States and NATO contingents," Igor Ivanov said. "They must be more proactive so that existing problems in the country will not develop further."

MOSCOW, May 11 (RIA Novosti) - The secretary of Russia's Security Council said Thursday international coalition forces should step up stabilization efforts in Afghanistan.

"More active efforts are needed from coalition forces working in Afghanistan - the United States and NATO contingents," Igor Ivanov said. "They must be more proactive so that existing problems in the country will not develop further."

"Unfortunately, there are no grounds to say that the situation in Afghanistan is stabilizing or that the tasks set by the antiterrorism coalition at the beginning of operations [in 2001] have been fulfilled," Ivanov, a former foreign minister, said.

Ivanov said the flow of drugs from Afghanistan had been increasing, and the country remained a training base for various extremism organizations.

He added that Russia had been discussing these problems with its partners and taking measures to counter them, including with the framework of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, a regional security body comprising Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Armenia.

Ivanov also said that the situation in Iraq remained tense, and hoped that a new government would be formed in the country to ensure political stability.

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