{"id":49647,"date":"2025-06-01T19:00:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T16:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=49647"},"modified":"2025-06-01T19:00:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T16:00:35","slug":"russia-accepts-talibans-nominated-ambassador-to-moscow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/01\/russia-accepts-talibans-nominated-ambassador-to-moscow\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Accepts Taliban\u2019s Nominated Ambassador to Moscow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has officially accepted the Taliban&#8217;s nomination of an ambassador to Moscow, the Afghan foreign ministry said in a statement on Sunday, as economic and political ties grow between the two sanctions-hit nations.<\/p>\n<p>Russia in April suspended its ban on the Taliban, which it had designated for more than two decades as a terrorist organization, in a move that paved the way for Moscow to normalize ties with the leadership of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>No country has formally recognized the Taliban&#8217;s government, which took over the country in 2021 as US-led forces withdrew.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We hope this new phase will allow both countries to expand cooperation in various fields,&#8221; said Amir Khan Muttaqi, the Taliban&#8217;s acting foreign minister, in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>China in 2023 became the first country to accept a diplomat at ambassador level from the Taliban and several countries have since followed, including Pakistan which announced it would upgrade the position this week.<\/p>\n<p>Diplomats say formally presenting ambassadorial credentials to a foreign head of state signals a step towards recognition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has officially accepted the Taliban&#8217;s nomination of an ambassador to Moscow, the Afghan foreign ministry said in a statement on Sunday, as economic and political ties grow between the two sanctions-hit nations. Russia in April suspended its ban on the Taliban, which it had designated for more than two decades as a terrorist organization, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49653,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49647\/revisions\/49653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}