PHOTO: ANADOLU AGENCYRussia will remove the Taliban from a list of banned terrorist organisations, three years after they returned to power in Afghanistan, the state-run RIA Novosti news agency said Monday. "Kazakhstan has recently taken the decision, which we are also going to take, to remove them from the list of terrorist organisations," RIA Novosti quoted Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying. Read: Russia invites Afghanistan's Taliban to major economic forumKazakhstan removed the Taliban from its list of banned organisations at the end of 2023. Russia also invited Taliban representatives to its flagship Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum, state media reported. The event was once seen as the cornerstone of Russia's economic relations with the West.

Source: The Express Tribune May 27, 2024 22:14 UTC