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Shoigu announces Russia's readiness to exclude the Taliban from the blacklist
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 “Shoigu announced Russia’s intention to intensify bilateral cooperation with Afghanistan, pointing to plans to remove the Islamic state from Russia’s “black list” in order to strengthen political and economic ties in the near future,” the report states following the meeting of the Russian delegation with Afghan officials. It is noted that Russia has expressed readiness for economic cooperation with the state in a number of areas. Russian investors and state enterprises are interested in such sectors as mining, transport and agriculture. As reported by the Regnum news agency, on October 4, member of the board of the Russian Foreign Ministry and former Russian ambassador to Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov stated that the decision to exclude the Taliban movement from the list of terrorist organizations was made at the highest level, but legal procedures must be followed. On the same day, FSB chief Alexander Bortnikov noted that Russia was completing the study of the issue of excluding the movement from the list of terrorist organizations. The Russian side considers it expedient, on the one hand, to establish contacts with the Taliban, and on the other, to identify potential supporters of terrorists in the CIS countries, Bortnikov added. On May 27, the Russian Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of Justice reported to the country's president, Vladimir Putin, that the Taliban movement could be excluded from the list of terrorist organizations. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called the idea of excluding the Taliban from the list of banned organizations an objective reality. According to him, the Taliban is the real power in Afghanistan, and Russia is not indifferent to Afghanistan. Posted by: badanov 2024-11-26 |
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