Suhail Shaheen, the head of the Islamic Emirate's political office in Qatar, told TOLOnews that the presence of the Islamic Emirate officials' names on the blacklist is a barrier to Kabul's relations with other countries.

Shaheen said that the blacklist and other obstacles should be removed, adding that the interim government seeks to expand its relations with all countries based on mutual national interests.

The head of the Islamic Emirate's political office in Qatar said: "We hope that the blacklist and other barriers that stand in the way of positive relations will be removed so that we can have broad relations in light of mutual national interests."

The Russian Foreign Ministry recently said that the exact timing for the removal of Islamic Emirate officials' names from the blacklist is unclear. According to Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister, the process of removing the names of Islamic Emirate officials from the list of banned groups requires changes in Russian law, and therefore, this will not happen quickly.

Andrey Rudenko, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister, stressed the expansion of relations between Kabul and Moscow in an interview with Russia's RIA Novosti news agency, saying that these relations require the removal of Islamic Emirate officials' names from the blacklist.

Rudenko said: "The process of removing the Taliban from the list of banned groups is not fast because it requires changes in Russian laws."

The plan to remove the names of Islamic Emirate officials from the list of banned groups in Russia was prepared by the country's foreign ministry and justice ministry earlier this year and sent to the Kremlin for final approval. However, no results have been published so far.

"Russia's claim that removing the Taliban's names from the terrorist list requires time and legal procedures seems to be an excuse. We know that in Russia, most things are resolved with just one signature from Mr. Putin," Wahid Faqiri, an international relations expert, told TOLOnews.

Earlier, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan announced that they had removed the names of Islamic Emirate officials from their lists of banned groups.