AKIPRESS.COM - Kazakhstan has removed the Taliban from the list of banned organizations, Foreign Ministry's spokesperson Aibek Smadyarov said in an interview with Kazinform news agency.

Smadyarov said that Kazakhstan revises the national list of prohibited terrorist organizations on a regular basis in order to keep it up to date. As part of this process, it was decided to exclude the Taliban from this list as per the UN practice.

Thus, in compliance with the UN Security Council’s resolutions, which are mandatory for implementation, the Taliban is not included in the list of organizations recognized as terrorist ones.