Putin's special envoy called the conditions for excluding the Taliban from terrorists Russia

is ready to help the Taliban to be removed from the UN terrorist list, subject to the creation of an inclusive government and ensuring human rights in Afghanistan,Zamir Kabulov, President's Special Representative for Afghanistan, said

Russia is ready to initiate a discussion at the UN to remove the Taliban from the terrorist list, subject to ensuring the inclusiveness of the government and basic human rights in Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, special representative of the Russian president for Afghanistan, said in an interview with RBC.

“When the Taliban take convincing steps to meet the two demands of the international community: inclusiveness and basic human rights. Then yes, of course,” he said, answering the question when Russia would be ready to support the removal of the Taliban from the UN sanctions list (the Taliban movement is recognized as terrorist in Russia and banned). Kabulov added that the moment of removing the Taliban from the UN list of terrorist organizations is approaching, but "the speed of its approach to resolution" depends on the steps he named.

Read the interview with Zamir Kabulov on the RBC website at 7:00.

“The Taliban deservedly are on the sanctions list of the UN Security Council for their deeds committed more than 20 years ago. And then this decision was made. And we are dealing with the consequences of that decision. Due to these circumstances, the Taliban were and remain on this list. Although during this time life did not stand still, the Taliban realized many important things, they stopped positioning themselves as an international jihadist organization and were engaged in a purely domestic agenda, ”explained the special representative of the president.

Asked if the moment has come to remove the Taliban from the list of terrorist organizations banned in Russia, Kabulov said: "Yes, it has come, but this decision is made by the President of Russia, and there are a number of steps provided for by Russian legislation." The diplomat also expressed a personal point of view that such a moment is coming. In October last year, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke about the expediency of removing the Taliban from the UN terrorist lists . According to him, Russia is approaching a decision to remove the Taliban from the list of terrorist organizations, but this should be done first of all by the UN Security Council, he said at a session of the Valdai Club.