The Taliban has introduced that its authorities goals to determine ties and diplomatic relations with all international locations of the world, apart from Israel.
In keeping with the group’s spokesman Suhail Shaheen, who spoke to the Russian state-owned information company Sputnik, the group will even permit relations to develop with the US which occupied Afghanistan for 20 years.
“If America needs to have a relation with us, which could possibly be within the curiosity of each international locations and each peoples, and in the event that they wish to take part within the reconstruction of Afghanistan, they’re welcome,” Shaheen said. He dominated out one nation, nevertheless, revealing that “in fact, we cannot have any relation with Israel. We wish to have relations with different international locations, [but] Israel just isn’t amongst these international locations.”
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The spokesman’s announcement comes a month after he was implicated in an argument regarding the Israeli channel Kan to which he gave an interview. Shaheen insisted afterwards that he was not conscious the channel was Israeli, nevertheless, saying that “some journalists could also be masquerading however I have not completed [an] interview with anybody introducing himself [that] he’s from an Israeli media.”
The previous Afghan authorities, which the Taliban just lately overthrew, additionally had no official relations with Tel Aviv.
