Russia has become the first country to officially recognize the Taliban government in Afghanistan since it took power in 2021 after Moscow withdrew the group from its list of prohibited organizations.
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Thursday that it had received skills titles from the Afghanistan ambassador, Gul Hassan Hassan. The official recognition of the Afghan government will promote “productive bilateral cooperation”, the ministry said in a statement.
The Afghan Ministry of Affairs described it as “historic not” and quoted the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Taliban, Amir Khan Muttaqi, to greet the decision as “a good example for other countries”.
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“We believe that Russia’s decision is a positive message for the rest of the world. … We think that some Muslim and regional countries can follow suit,” Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told CBS News.
China Welcome Russia’s decision on Friday. “As a traditional friendly friend of Afghanistan, the Chinese party has always believed that Afghanistan should not be excluded from the international community,” said spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mao Ning.
“No matter how internal or external changes in Afghanistan, diplomatic relations between China and Afghanistan have never been interrupted,” she said.
On Friday, a former Taliban official told CBS News that group leaders would undoubtedly welcome Russian and Chinese support, there was recognition that “Russia and China could not support us financially as the Americans.”
During two decades of governance supported by the United States in Afghanistan, there has been a constant flow of billions of dollars in the country, helping to pay for everything, police wages and hospitals in schools and weapons for army and police. Since the Taliban resumed power in the summer of 2021, this financial support from the United States and its allies practically dried up.
“Only America and its allies can provide real relief – if they wish,” said the former Taliban official in Yousafzai. “We know it.”
The Taliban took control of Afghanistan in August 2021 following the withdrawal of American forces and NATO. Since then, they have requested international recognition while applying their strict interpretation of Islamic law.
Although no country has officially recognized the administration of the Taliban so far, the group had engaged in high -level talks with many nations and established diplomatic links with countries such as China and the United Arab Emirates.
However, the Taliban government has been relatively isolated on the world scene, largely on its restrictions on women.
Although the Taliban initially promised a more moderate rule than during their first stay in power from 1996 to 2001, he began to apply restrictions to women and girls shortly after taking control of 2021. Women are excluded from most jobs and public places, including parks, baths and gymnasiums, while girls are prohibited from education beyond the sixth year.
Russian officials recently underlined the need to engage with the Taliban to help stabilize Afghanistan and raised the Taliban ban in April.
Russia’s ambassador to Afghanistan, Dmitry Zhirnov, said in remarks broadcast by television of the State Channel, that the decision to officially recognize the Taliban government had been made by President Vladimir Putin on the advice of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergey Lavrov.
Zhirnov said that the decision proves that Russia’s “sincere solution to the development of full -fledged relations with Afghanistan”.
On Friday, the Taliban shot down the tricolor flag of the Embassy Republic in Moscow and replaced it with their white flag, which caused reactions from the former officials of the Republic.
“An authoritarian regime by recognizing another”
“Russian Russia of the Taliban marks a turning point. He legitimizes a regime which prohibits the girls of education, applies public flashes and shelters non -sanctioned terrorists, “wrote Mariam Solaimankhail, a former member of the Afghanistan Parliament during the government of the Republic, on social networks. “This decision indicates that strategic interests will always prevail over human rights and international law.”
Naseer A. Faiq, the loading cases of the permanent Afghan mission to the United Nations, said: “The recognition of the Taliban by the countries which has supported them in the last twenty years is not surprising. But the main question is whether this recognition will have an impact on the political, economic and humanitarian situation in the situation, and uncertainty, and right?
“The answer is clear: this political decision is apparently in the interest of the Taliban, but its long -term negative effects on the Afghan people will be much more important.”
Torek Farhadi, a veteran geopolitical analyst, believes that Russia is interested in minerals of rare earths in Afghanistan. He said that Moscow’s recognition of the Taliban made the financial investments possible for the Russian defense industry in the region.
“Afghanistan has mines and depots of rare land and Moscow has the mappings of the Soviet day,” Farhadi told CBS News. “Moscow officially recognizes the Taliban, he opens the door of investments as rare land becomes the key to the automotive industry and the defense industry. Moscow is interested in this point before anyone returned to Afghanistan for such investments. ”
Mohammad Halim Fidai, a former provincial governor and activist for civil society in exile in Germany, told CBS News: “By approving the Taliban regime, Russia not only violated international standards, but also compromised the world consensus against the recognition of a government with a deeply disturbing human rights assessment.”
“This decision risks further marginalizing Russia and the Taliban on the world stage.”
“In addition, he exposes the erroneous hypotheses of some in the West that the Taliban had reformed and would respect fundamental rights. In the end, this approval reflects a broader tendency of authoritarian solidarity – an authoritarian regime by recognizing another. ”