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NEW YORK, July 31 (UPI) -- The U.N. Security Council removed five members of the Taliban from its sanctions list, a move seen as crucial to Afghanistan's future stability, officials said.
The three were among 20 names the government of President Hamid Karzai submitted to the Security Council committee responsible for maintaining the blacklist, The New York Times reported Saturday.
Reconciliation with the Taliban is being discussed by many as the only way of ending the Afghan war, the Times reported.
Karzai has talked about taking all Taliban members off the sanctions list, currently about 135 of them, but has not submitted any more requests, diplomats said.
One of the people removed from the list, a former Taliban ambassador to Pakistan, said more needed to be done.
"It will build trust between both sides, but on one condition," Abdul Salam Zaeef said. "This process should continue and does not stop right here. They should remove the names of more and more people from this list -- one or two or five names are not enough."
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