KABUL: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, in a statement on Wednesday, welcomed the Russian parliament’s decision to exclude the IEA from its list of banned groups.
“The IEA Foreign Affairs Ministry welcomes the plan of the Parliament of the Russian Federation to approve a bill, facilitating the ground for removing the name of ‘Tehrik Taliban’, the former name of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, from its banned list,” the statement said.
According to the statement, this step removes an obstacle to the improvement of the level of bilateral relations between Afghanistan and Russia.
The Russian parliament approved a bill on Tuesday, allowing the removal of the name of the Islamic Emirate from Moscow’s banned group list.