{"id":12425,"date":"2025-07-04T04:57:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T00:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=12425"},"modified":"2025-07-04T04:57:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T00:27:18","slug":"taliban-claim-moscow-recognizes-the-taliban-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/taliban-claim-moscow-recognizes-the-taliban-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban claim: Moscow recognizes the Taliban government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12414\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/muko-afga.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The Taliban Foreign Ministry has announced that Dmitry Zhirnov, the Russian ambassador to Kabul, announced Moscow&#8217;s recognition of the Taliban government in a meeting with Amir Khan Muttaqi, the acting minister of the ministry.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>The meeting was held in Kabul on Thursday, July 1, and according to the Taliban, Zhirnov called this action &#8220;a historic step&#8221; in strengthening relations between the two sides.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>In this meeting, Amir Khan Muttaqi also described Russia&#8217;s decision as &#8220;realistic and transformative&#8221; and said that this step could pave the way for expanding bilateral cooperation between Kabul and Moscow.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Meanwhile, the Russian Foreign Ministry has also told the TASS news agency that Moscow has officially recognized the Taliban government.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>At the same time, the flag of the Republic of Afghanistan has been lowered from the embassy in Moscow and the Taliban flag has been raised.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>These developments are taking place while Gul Hassan Hassan, the Taliban\u2019s designated ambassador to Moscow, has officially begun his work.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban Foreign Ministry has announced that Dmitry Zhirnov, the Russian ambassador to Kabul, announced Moscow&#8217;s recognition of the Taliban government in a meeting with Amir Khan Muttaqi, the acting minister of the ministry. The meeting was held in Kabul on Thursday, July 1, and according to the Taliban, Zhirnov called this action &#8220;a historic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12414,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12426,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12425\/revisions\/12426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}