MOSCOW, Jan 27 Moscow is considering contacts in Oslo with the Taliban (the movement is under UN sanctions for terrorist activities) as a step towards their recognition, said Aleksey Zaitsev, Deputy Director of Information and Press of the Russian Foreign Ministry. meetings, on the one hand, as a step towards international recognition of the Taliban movement, on the other hand, as a movement towards increasing trust between the ruling regime in Kabul and representatives of other Afghan social and political circles,» Zaitsev said at a briefing.
16:10Russia is ready to provide a platform for negotiations with the TalibanThe delegation that visited Oslo earlier thanked the Norwegian government for «hospitality, promoting confidence building, intensifying humanitarian and economic support for Afghanistan», expressing hope for the continuation of such meetings in the future. The Norwegian authorities invited the Taliban delegation to Oslo from 23 to 25 January for meetings with the Norwegian authorities, representatives of the international community and other Afghans. The Taliban delegation was headed by acting. Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaki. In early August 2021, the Taliban intensified their offensive against the Afghan government forces, entered Kabul on August 15 and the next day declared that the war was over. The last two weeks of August, from the Kabul airport, which was under the protection of the US military, there was a mass evacuation of Western citizens and Afghans who collaborated with them. On the night of August 31, the US military left the Kabul airport, ending nearly 20 years of US military presence in Afghanistan. In early September, the composition of the interim government of Afghanistan was announced, which was headed by Mohammad Hassan Akhund, who was in charge of foreign policy during the first rule of the Taliban* and has been under UN sanctions since 2001.* The organization is under UN sanctions for terrorist activities
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