The Kazakh Foreign Ministry has announced that the country has accredited a chargé d’affaires of Taliban-led Afghanistan to expand trade, economic, and humanitarian cooperation between the two countries.
On August 21 in Astana, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Alibek Bakayev met with Muhammad Ur Rehman Rahmani, head of Afghanistan’s diplomatic mission in Kazakhstan. Bakayev stated that Kazakhstan had accredited Mr. Muhammad Rahmani as chargé d’affaires.
Early in June, Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev announced that his country had removed the Taliban from its list of terrorist organizations, stressing that the move was made to develop trade and economic ties with Taliban-led Afghanistan.
In recent years, Kazakhstan has made efforts to increase trade with Afghanistan and participate in Afghan transport and connectivity projects in cooperation with Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.
Kazakhstan has also advocated for consolidating international efforts to provide assistance to Afghanistan and resolve its complex humanitarian problems. To this end, Kazakhstan proposed establishing the UN Regional Centre for Sustainable Development for Central Asia and Afghanistan in Almaty.
