Kazakhstan removes Taliban from terrorist list
A week ago, Putin was offered to remove the Taliban from the terrorist list if the Taliban behaved in a ‘civilised manner’
At a meeting of representatives of the CSTO countries, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev made a statement about the ‘removal of the Taliban regime’ from the terrorist list.
The Kazakh authorities have decided to remove the Taliban from the list of terrorist organisations. This was reported on Monday, 3 June, by the official website of the country's president. ‘Kazakhstan has removed the Taliban regime from the terrorist list, based on the importance of developing trade and economic cooperation with modern Afghanistan and the understanding that this regime is a long-term factor,’ the press service quoted the head of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, as saying.
According to the publication, Tokayev made this statement during a meeting with the speakers of the Houses of Parliament of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO).
According to the president, one of the strategic tasks at the current stage is to actively involve Afghanistan in interregional relations, the press service said.
‘The president called for support for Kazakhstan's initiative to establish a UN Regional Centre for Sustainable Development Goals for Central Asia and Afghanistan in Almaty,’ the statement said.
On 27 May, the Russian Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of Justice reported to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin that the radical Islamist movement Taliban could be removed from the list of organisations banned in the country.
Zamir Kabulov, who is Putin's special representative for Afghanistan, has previously stated that the Taliban can be removed from the list of terrorists in Russia only after it is done at the level of the UN Security Council. For this to happen, he said, the Taliban must show that they are behaving in a ‘civilised manner’.
According to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, the Taliban movement is the real power in Afghanistan, and ‘Russia is not indifferent to this.’
Background. Earlier it became known that Russia signed a $1bn investment agreement with the Taliban, and began supplying oil, gas and wheat to Afghanistan.
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