Russia, China and Pakistan have agreed to work together to get Afghan Taliban individuals delisted from the UN sanctions list.
According to a press release issued by the Russian Foreign Ministry following Tuesday’s meeting in Moscow between the three countries, delegates also met with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov.
The statement indicated that “Russia and China, as permanent members of the UN Security Council, reaffirmed their readiness for flexible approaches to the prospect of excluding certain individuals from the list of sanctioned persons as part of efforts to promote a peaceful dialogue between Kabul and the Taliban movement.”
Pointing towards what they said was a “worsening security situation in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan” the delegates said they were “especially worried about intensifying activities by extremist groups in that country, including the Afghan branch of ISIS (Daesh).”
According to the statement, the participants agreed to continue efforts to assist in furthering the national reconciliation process in Afghanistan, based on the key role of the Afghans - “in line with the principles of integrating the armed opposition into peaceful life.”
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