Russia: We make decisions about the Taliban based on our interests

report Mehr News Agency quoted by Tass, “Dimitri Zhirnov”, the Russian ambassador to Afghanistan, said: Russia will focus on its own interests in the issue of recognizing and removing the Taliban from the list of banned organizations.

The senior Russian diplomat announced in an interview that the Taliban movement is not on the list of terrorist groups in all countries of the region. In any case, every country follows its own motives in its relations with Afghanistan.

Zhirnov, regarding the statements of the Afghan authorities regarding establishing cooperation with Russia in the field of food security and supply of oil products, added that this cooperation is progressing at full speed. .

The Russian ambassador also mentioned that trade exchanges between the two countries have increased several times.

According to this Russian official, trade between the two sides is based on products such as wheat, flour, fuel, gasoline, motor oil and kerosene.