UN eases sanctions on five Taliban leaders
The United Nations has removed five former Afghan Taliban officials from its sanctions list which was imposed because of alleged links to al-Qaeda.
The UN said the five would no longer be subject to international travel bans and a freeze on their assets.
Separately, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said a fixed date to pull troops from Afghanistan would be a mistake.
She was speaking with Afghan President Hamid Karzai ahead of Thursday's London conference on Afghanistan.
The UN Security Council sanctions panel "approved the deletion (de-listing) of the five entries" from its blacklist of individuals subjected to a travel ban, assets freeze and arms embargo, the UN said in a statement.
The five men are former members of the Taliban government, and were put on the UN blacklist in 2001.
They were not active insurgents and there had already been debate within the UN sanctions committee on whether to remove them from the list.
The men include Abdul Wakil Mutawakil, who was a foreign minister when the Taliban were in power in Afghanistan.
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