The representatives of the Taliban movement (a terrorist organization prohibited in Russia) appointed Mohammad Schayl Shahin to the post of Ambassador Afghanistan to the United Nations (UN). This is reported by Reuters.
Taliban also made a request to turn to world leaders of the UN in New York this week.
Earlier it was reported that the Taliban put pressure on UN staff. In this, their permanent representative of Great Britain in the UN Barbara Woodward was caught.
According to the postpreda, the participants in humanitarian missions of the organization are regularly subjected to threats from the Taliban. At the same time, it became known that the UN Security Council extended its mission in the Afghan territory for six months and adopted the appropriate resolution.