{"id":1413558,"date":"2022-03-31T16:30:21","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T20:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1413558"},"modified":"2022-03-31T16:30:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T20:30:25","slug":"russia-welcomes-taliban-diplomat-praises-jihadists-for-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-welcomes-taliban-diplomat-praises-jihadists-for-human-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Welcomes Taliban \u2018Diplomat,&#039; Praises Jihadists for &#039;Human Rights&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussia-welcomes-taliban-diplomat-praises-jihadists-for-human-rights%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1413558&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\"><span>Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced Thursday that Moscow has accredited its first diplomatic representative from the Taliban, even though Russia supposedly regards the regime that violently seized control of Afghanistan last summer as a terrorist organization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Lavrov told the Third Meeting of Foreign Ministers of Afghanistan\u2019s Neighboring Countries that Moscow recognized and welcomed the unnamed Taliban diplomat in February.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cWe are convinced that the international community should actively cooperate with Afghanistan\u2019s new government, encouraging steps aimed at its official recognition by the UN and all its participants,\u201d Lavrov <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/politics\/1430113?utm_source=google.com&#038;utm_medium=organic&#038;utm_campaign=google.com&#038;utm_referrer=google.com\"><span>declared<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Russian foreign minister had a few words of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/hindustannewshub.com\/russia-ukraine-news\/russia-accredits-taliban-ambassador-the-moscow-times\/\"><span>criticism<\/span><\/a><span> for the \u201cinsufficient representativeness\u201d of the Taliban regime \u2013 a rather delicate way of saying the government is entirely run by male extremists who just <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/03\/23\/taliban-breaks-promise-bans-girls-from-school-over-6th-grade\/\"><span>kicked girls out of school<\/span><\/a><span> again \u2013 but bizarrely praised the Taliban for its success with \u201ccounter-terrorism and human rights.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7322219\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2017\/09\/lavrov1.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span>Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov<\/span>\u00a0(AFP\/JOHN THYS)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Lavrov said the Taliban is working hard to \u201cexpand diplomatic and economic ties,\u201d strongly hinting that a bit more \u201cinclusiveness\u201d could clear the last obstacles to widespread international recognition for the hideous regime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Lavrov also used the summit of Afghanistan\u2019s neighbors in China to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/anytvnews.com\/latest-news\/russia-recognizes-the-first-ambassador-appointed-by-taliban-message-to-nato\/\"><span>accuse<\/span><\/a><span> the United States of \u201ctrying to avoid future responsibility for the citizens and refugees of Afghanistan\u201d by keeping sanctions against the Taliban regime in place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe United States, through its influence in the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, is obstructing the implementation of social programs in Afghanistan,\u201d he declared.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/moscow-accredits-afghan-taliban-diplomat\/31779456.html\"><span>Radio Free Europe<\/span><\/a><span> (RFE) noted that while few nations in the world formally recognize the Taliban as legitimate rulers of Afghanistan, the United Nations Security Council made a major diplomatic concession to the terrorist group on March 17 by voting to establish diplomatic relations with the regime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The U.N. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2022\/03\/1114132\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> it opened relations with the Taliban on behalf of the suffering Afghan people, asserting that humanitarian assistance could not be effectively rendered to them without involving local officials. Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia abstained from the vote, saying it did not go far enough to recognize the Taliban or obtain its consent for U.N. operations in Afghanistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Russia used to be one of the countries that vowed it would not recognize the Taliban regime. The last ambassador to Moscow from the ousted U.S.-backed government of Afghanistan, Said Jawad, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/2021\/10\/18\/russian-recognition-of-taliban-regime-not-on-the-table-says-afghanistans-pro-western-ambassador-in-moscow-a75326\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> in October he was given assurances by the Russian Foreign Ministry that \u201crecognition of the Taliban regime is not even on the table.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced Thursday that Moscow has accredited its first diplomatic representative from the Taliban, even though Russia supposedly regards the regime that violently seized control of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1413558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1413558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1413558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}