MOSCOW, March 15. /TASS/. Washington will not participate in the meeting of the extended "troika" on Afghanistan in Kabul, Russia’s Special Presidential Envoy for Afghanistan, Director of the Foreign Ministry’s Second Asian Department Zamir Kabulov told TASS on Tuesday.

"The Americans won’t be present in Kabul, and this is not needed," Kabulov said.

Earlier, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the next meeting of the extended troika (Russia, China, the United States and Pakistan) was scheduled for March.