MOSCOW, November 8. /TASS/. The situation in Afghanistan is a source of serious security threats and a clear confirmation Western policies are disastrous, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev said at a meeting with his colleagues in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in Moscow with.

"We are following closely and with concern what is happening on the territory of Afghanistan. The situation in that country is a clear confirmation of how disastrous the Western colonial policy is," he said.

Patrushev explained that drug smuggling, infiltrations of terrorist groups across the border, the export of radicalism, and illegal migration were among the threats that had to be dealt with in that area.