Afghanistan is all for cooperating with Russia and different BRICS nations, Mohammad Suhail Shaheen has advised RT
Each Afghanistan and Russia will profit as soon as Moscow removes the Taliban from its checklist of terrorist organizations, Kabul’s ambassador to Qatar, Mohammad Suhail Shaheen, has advised RT.
Earlier this week, the Russian Prosecutor Common’s Workplace filed a movement to elevate the ban on the actions of the Taliban within the nation, with the request to be thought-about by the Supreme Court docket on April 17. The Islamist group had been on Russia’s terrorist group checklist since 2003.
Moscow elevated diplomatic contacts with the Taliban after it took energy in Afghanistan in 2021, capitalizing on the withdrawal of US forces after their two-decade presence within the Central Asian nation.
The Russian prosecutors’ request is “a optimistic step” as a result of each Kabul and Moscow “have curiosity to have cooperation in numerous fields,” Shaheen, the Taliban’s de facto worldwide spokesman, mentioned in an interview on Wednesday.
The ban on the group in Russia stood “in the best way of that cooperation, so it was immediately wanted to take away it,” he added.
In line with the envoy, the Taliban authorities, which isn’t acknowledged by the UN, would love Russia to participate within the reconstruction of Afghanistan after years of combating. The nation gives “a whole lot of alternative, and mineral sources, and agricultural fields, and different areas of curiosity,” he added.
“Russia is a really huge nation of the area, an essential nation. So that’s our coverage – we wish to have relations with all international locations, significantly with the regional international locations,” Shaheen careworn.
Even the US may participate in rebuilding Afghanistan, regardless of its “harmful position throughout the occupation of the nation,” he mentioned.
“We are not looking for Afghanistan to turn out to be a floor for rivalry towards one other international locations… We’re open to Russian funding and cooperation in numerous fields, and our relationships with the US won’t hurt that,” the envoy defined.
Final fall, the presence of the Taliban’s delegation on the BRICS summit within the Russian metropolis of Kazan attracted a whole lot of consideration. When requested if the Afghan authorities need to increase ties with the group, Shaheen replied: “Sure, we wish the cooperation; we wish our delegation to be current in any worldwide convention and current their case… themselves and with their phrases.”
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