Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what discussions they have had with the governments of (1) Russia, and (2) China, in regard to the current situation in Afghanistan and at what ministerial and diplomatic level; and when the Prime Minister last spoke to US President Biden in regard to the current situation in Afghanistan.

The Prime Minister spoke to US President Biden on 23 August and at the G7 on 24 August. The Foreign Secretary spoke to Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on 18 August. We are in regular contact at an official level with the Russian government through our Ambassador and her team at the British Embassy in Moscow. This is also the case through our missions in New York, where we convened a meeting of P5 representatives on 23 August. We are planning further Ministerial engagement in the coming days.