CNN: Top US administration officials meet with Taliban in Doha

This is reported by CNN, citing two officials involved in the case.

It is specified that the American delegation was represented by CIA Deputy Director David Cohen and Special Representative for Afghanistan Thomas West.

From the Taliban side, the meeting was attended by the head of the intelligence department, Mullah Abdul Haq Wasik.

According to the channel, this meeting is the first personal contact between the United States and representatives of the Taliban since the elimination of the leader of the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda ** Ayman al-Zawahiri in August.

Earlier, the Taliban government* criticized the US decision to transfer $3.5 billion from the frozen assets of the Afghan Central Bank to a Swiss trust fund, bypassing the Afghan movement, which is in power.

* "Taliban" - the organization is under UN sanctions for terrorist activities.

** "Al-Qaeda" - the organization was recognized as a terrorist organization by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of February 14, 2003.