United Nations headquarters in New York. File photoUN, Aug 3 The UN Counterterrorism Office is actively engaged in dissociating the Taliban* from Al-Qaeda**, UN Deputy Secretary General, head of the department Vladimir Voronkov told reporters. Responding to a request from RIA Novosti to comment on the liquidation al-Qaeda leader** Ayman al-Zawahiri, Voronkov said: «He was one of the leaders of al-Qaeda**. Al-Qaeda** is now quite well represented in Afghanistan, and my office is doing everything possible to encourage the Taliban* to disassociate themselves from al-Qaeda**.* The movement is under UN sanctions for terrorist activities* A terrorist organization banned in Russia jpg» />The Kremlin allowed the exclusion of the Taliban * from the UN sanctions list
