UNITED NATIONS: A number of countries maintain sanctions on Taliban, terming it a terrorist group, but Russia is pondering over lifting them.

Vasily Nebenzya, Permanent Russian Ambassador to UN suggested on Monday (1st July, 2024) that Moscow was considering dropping sanctions against the Taliban as the Afghan authorities met with representatives of the international community in Doha.
Vasily Nebenzya holding that the Taliban were the de facto authorities and are not going to stop, “and we’ve been saying consistently that you have to recognize this fact and deal with them as such because, whether you like it or not, this movement is running the country now. You cannot simply ignore that.”
“On how far we are from removing them from the sanctions list on which they are now with Russia, I cannot tell you the definite answer, but I heard some talks about it”. It is pertinent to mention here that no country in the world had officially recognized government in Kabul since it took power in 2021.
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