Afghan Voice Agency (AVA) - Kabul: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement issued today (Wednesday, May 29) said: The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is aware of the statements of the leadership, the foreign minister and other officials of the Russian Federation regarding the expression of political will to expand relations. welcomes the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
In a statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it is stated: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate expresses to the Russian Federation that it has a serious political determination to further expand and strengthen positive relations in order to secure the interests of the people of the two countries based on mutual respect and common interests.
The statement also emphasized: "The past three years have shown that Afghanistan has become a responsible government owner after decades of war and instability; It has provided a good opportunity for all the countries in the region to work on the expansion of positive relations, taking into account the bilateral priorities, and good progress has been made with many countries in this regard.
This is despite the fact that two days ago, during a three-day visit to Uzbekistan, the President of Russia said in response to journalists' 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." they do."
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.