DUSHANBE, October 10. /TASS/. Continuing dialogue with the Taliban movement (banned in Russia) currently in power in Afghanistan is essential for maintaining peace and stability in Central Asia, said the chairman of the International Affairs Committee of the Federation Council, Grigory Karasin, during a round table on regional security in Central Asia.

The Federation Council delegation headed by Valentina Matvienko is on an official visit to Tajikistan from October 9 to 11.

“It appears important to continue dialogue with the ruling Taliban movement (in Afghanistan) in order to maintain peace and stability in Central Asia,” Karasin said.

On October 4, the Russian President’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, said that the political decision to remove the Taliban from the list of terrorist organizations was made at the highest political level, but the necessary legal procedures had to be carried out. still be followed. Previously, the director of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), Alexander Bortnikov, announced that Moscow recognized the Taliban’s desire to fight Wilayat Khorasan, the most dangerous branch of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group (banned in Russia). .

On October 7, the Russian President’s adviser on international affairs, Yuri Ushakov, confirmed to the TASS agency that the Taliban could soon be removed from the list of banned organizations.