MADRID 28 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, has signed the law that will allow the Russian Government to recognize, if it so deems appropriate, the fundamentalist Taliban movement as the legitimate rulers of Afghanistan.
Russia, like the rest of the international community, considers the Taliban to be a group of coup plotters who regained power by force in 2021. However, this consideration has not prevented Moscow and Kabul from maintaining diplomatic and economic ties since then.
The law signed by Putin makes it possible to temporarily suspend the declaration of the Taliban as a “terrorist organization prohibited in Russia” as long as there is evidence that the fundamentalist movement “stops carrying out activities aimed at promoting, justifying and supporting terrorism.”
The law fills a legal gap that prevented the configuration of a judicial mechanism to remove the Taliban from this category. The signing takes place just over a week after the Russian Parliament, the Duma, approved the corresponding bill to lift the ban.
Once the court decision comes into legal force, corresponding changes will be made to the list of terrorist organizations, according to official sources on condition of anonymity to the Russian agency Interfax.