Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] The Taliban movement is Russia's ally in the fight against terrorism, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on July 4.
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According to him, the Taliban movement has taken on certain obligations and “in general there are issues that require constant attention both within the country and the international community, but in general it is necessary to proceed from the fact that this movement controls power in Afghanistan.”
“And in this sense, the Taliban are certainly our allies in the fight against terrorism,” the head of state said, answering journalists’ questions.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on May 27, the Foreign Ministry and the Justice Ministry reported to President Vladimir Putin about the possibility of excluding the Taliban movement from the list of banned organizations. As Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov noted later, the Taliban are now the real power in Afghanistan. Russia and the Central Asian countries are not indifferent to what is happening in that country, he added.
Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev noted on May 28 that Moscow is close to establishing full-fledged relations with the Taliban. The politician recalled that at the beginning of the century, the Russian side considered the Taliban a terrorist organization, considering the United States a partner in the fight against extremism.
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