Following Russia's recent positions regarding the development of relations with the government of the Islamic Emirate, Vladimir Putin emphasized the necessity of relations with the Islamic Emirate in a speech in Tashkent on Tuesday. Zakir Jalali, advisor to the foreign minister of the caretaker government, welcomed the recent actions and words of the country's officials, and pointed out the important evolution in Russia's political understanding of the Islamic Emirate.

Afghan Voice Agency (AVA) - Kabul: Following Russia's recent positions regarding the development of relations with the government of the Islamic Emirate, Vladimir Putin also said on Tuesday in a speech in Tashkent, Uzbekistan: relations with the Islamic Emirate because they lead and control Afghanistan. It is necessary to do Putin said: "We must follow reality and build relations based on it."

The President of Russia, who arrived in Uzbekistan on a three-day visit, said in response to reporters' questions about Russia's relationship with the Islamic Emirate: "This relationship must be established somehow, they are the ones who control a country and a territory."
Putin added that Afghanistan has issues that are undeniable and obvious to everyone.

The Russian president added: "How to communicate with the current power [ruling in Afghanistan] is another question."

Putin emphasized on establishing relations with the Islamic Emirate while the Ministry of Justice of Russia has sent to Putin the file to remove the name of the Islamic Emirate from the list of terrorist groups. Putin's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also said in Tashkent on Tuesday that the Taliban have the real power in Afghanistan and that Russia will remove the name of this group from the list of terrorist groups.

Earlier, on Monday of this week, Zamir Kabulov, the special representative of the Russian president for Afghanistan affairs, said that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Justice of Russia proposed removing the Islamic Emirate from the list of terrorist groups to the president of this country in order to identify the Emirate. Islamic should be provided.

According to Zamir Kabulov, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Justice of Russia have completed their investigations on the possible removal of the Islamic Emirate from the terrorist list and have submitted the relevant proposal to the Kremlin.

It was after that that Dmitry Medvedev, the vice-chairman of the Russian National Security Council, spoke of getting close to establishing full-fledged relations with the Islamic Emirate.

Regarding Moscow's decision to consider the option of removing the Islamic Emirate from the list of banned groups, Medvedev said that this country is close to establishing full-fledged relations with the Islamic Emirate.

He added: "Twenty years is a relatively long period of time during which many things can change. At the beginning of the 21st century, we believed that the Taliban were terrorists and considered the Americans to be partners in the fight against extremism. Now everything is different and America is supporting terrorists."

Emphasizing that the geopolitical landscape has changed over the past 20 years, this Russian official continued: Now the Islamic Emirate is in power and we are close to establishing full-fledged relations with them.

On the other hand, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, in response to the action to remove the Islamic Emirate from the list of terrorist groups, said that "Taliban is the real power in Afghanistan, and the initiative to remove it from the list of banned organizations shows awareness of the reality."

Action to remove the Islamic Emirate from the list of terrorist groups and the words of the President of Russia in Uzbekistan met with a positive reaction from the government of the Islamic Emirate.

Zakir Jalali, advisor to the Foreign Minister of the Islamic Emirate, wrote in this regard: Following the statements of the special representative of the Russian President, Zamir Kabulov, the head of the National Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergei Lavrov, the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, clearly emphasized the development of relations with the Islamic Emirate. that establishing relations with the emirate is a necessity.

He added: This is the highest level of Russia's statement about the development of relations with the Islamic Emirate, which shows the satisfaction and political determination of his country for the development of relations.

The advisor of the foreign minister of the caretaker government has considered this issue as an important development in Russia's political understanding of the Islamic Emirate.

It should be noted that in recent months, efforts have been made by neighboring countries and the region to recognize the government of the Islamic Emirate.