Russia says working on removing Taliban from terrorist list

Russia said on Tuesday that it was working to remove the Taliban from its list of banned terrorist organizations.

Russia says working on removing Taliban from terrorist list

MEHR: Russia said on Tuesday that it was working to remove the Taliban from its list of banned terrorist organizations.

"This is a country that is next to us, and one way or another we communicate with them," Reuters quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying.

"We need to resolve pressing issues, this also requires dialogue, so in this regard we communicate with them like practically everyone else - they are the de facto authority in Afghanistan," he told reporters.

Peskov did not elaborate on the "pressing issues."