United Nations (United States), (AFP) - The United Nations extended Monday, for at least two months, the exemption of 13 Taliban officials from the travel ban, but this extension did not include two officials in the movement responsible for the educational sector in the country, according to a diplomatic source. .

Since the extremist Islamic movement assumed power in the country last summer, the international organization has been extending this exemption every three months, but this time the extension came in the interest of 13 out of 15 officials in the movement.

The two officials who were denied this exemption are Acting Assistant Minister of Education Saeed Ahmed Sheidkhel and Minister of Transcendence by designation Abdul Baqi Basir Awal Shah, better known as Abdul Baqi Haqqani.

According to the source, these two ministers no longer benefit from the exemption from the travel ban issued against them.

This exemption, which aims to allow the Taliban to trade abroad with other countries, expired on Monday.

These two ministers are now banned from traveling abroad, in the first severe reaction by the United Nations to the dramatic set back of women's and girls' rights in Afghanistan.

According to the diplomatic source, the decision was taken by the United Nations sanctions committee in charge of Afghanistan, which is represented by the fifteen members of the Security Council.

Diplomats told AFP that after arduous negotiations between the 15 members of the UN Security Council, a compromise was reached that provides for extending the exemption for the thirteen Taliban leaders by "60 days + 30 days."

Given the current situation in Afghanistan, some countries supported removing the exemption entirely, but other countries, somewhat close to Afghanistan, did not agree to adopt this hard line, according to diplomats.