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Russia Won’t Link Afghan Policy to Taliban Forming Inclusive Government

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia is not linking its policy on Afghanistan to the fact that the Taliban* must fulfill their promises of forming an inclusive government, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko said on Thursday.
“We are not linking anything. We expect the Taliban* movement to fulfill all their promises that they have previously made publicly to the international community. But by no means do we make this some kind of condition, and we do not link it to their activity, to their policy, including on the Russian direction,” Rudenko told reporters, adding that Moscow's Afghan policy won't change.
П/к запрещенного в РФ движения Талибан / Ситуация в Афганистане после смены власти - Sputnik International, 1920, 28.05.2024
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Why Time is Ripe to Delist Taliban as Banned Entity
On Monday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that the Taliban movement is the real authority in Afghanistan and that plans to remove it from the list of organizations banned in Russia reflect reality. Later, Special Russian Presidential Envoy for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov maintained that to continue labelling the Taliban* as a terrorist organization in Russia is obstructing the potential progress of relations between Moscow and Kabul.
*An organization under UN sanctions for terrorist activities
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