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Sunday, June 19, 2011
UN splits Taliban, Qaeda sanctions list
UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council, on Friday, split the UN sanctions list for Taliban and al Qaeda figures into two, which envoys said could help induce the Taliban into talks on a peace deal in Afghanistan. The move comes as Washington prepares to start pulling out its 97,000 troops in Afghanistan next month as part of a process to hand over all combat operations against Taliban insurgents to Afghan security forces by 2014. “The United States believes that the new sanctions regime for Afghanistan will serve as an important tool to promote reconciliation, while isolating extremists,” US Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said in a statement. reuters
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