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| Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is working on the issue of lifting the Taliban terrorist status | |
| 2024-04-02 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The issue of removing the status of a terrorist organization from the Taliban (a terrorist organization whose activities are prohibited on the territory of the Russian Federation) is being studied, the final decision will be made by the top leadership of Russia, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported on April 1.
The Foreign Ministry emphasized that the final decision will be made by the country's top political leadership. Earlier, on April 1, the special representative of the Russian President for Afghanistan, director of the second department of Asia of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Zamir Kabulov, said that the delegation of the Afghan Taliban movement was invited to participate in the Russia-Islamic World forum, which will be held in Kazan in May. As Regnum reported, in December 2023, the Kazakh authorities decided to remove the Taliban from the list of terrorists. Official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova expressed hope that the decision of the Kazakh authorities to exclude the Taliban movement from the national list of terrorist organizations will have a positive impact on the dialogue with Afghanistan and strengthen security in the region. The diplomat noted that the exclusion of the Taliban from the terrorist list will contribute to its removal from international isolation. Since March 2022, Moscow has established diplomatic relations with Afghanistan and accredited diplomats from the government formed by the Taliban. In January 2024, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that representatives of the Taliban movement as a whole control power in Afghanistan, and Russia does not stop contacts with them. | |
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