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BRUSSELS, Aug 1 (KUNA) -- The EU Saturday added the name of of Abdul Basir Noorzai and his "Haji Basir and Zarjmil Hawala Company" to its blacklist and imposed assets freeze and travel ban for financing the Taliban.
The EU published his name on its Official Gazette today and said Basir had authority to distribute money to the Taliban, and over the last several years, he distributed thousands of dollars through his Hawala to Taliban members in the region.
Also, in 2010, Basir solicited donations for the Taliban from Pakistani and Afghan expatriates living in Japan, the United Arab Emirates and Singapore, said an EU statement.
It noted that Basir hailed from Chaman, Baluchistan Province, Pakistan.
The UN Security Council Sanctions Committee, listed Basir on 7 March 2015 and his assets were frozen.
At the same time, the EU removed Sangeen Zadran Sher Mohammad from its sanctions list. He was a senior commander of the Haqqani Network and reportedly died in September 2013.
The EU also published Saturday on its Official Journal the first legal acts implementing the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the agreement reached on 14 July 2015 in Vienna on the Iranian nuclear issue with the G5+1.
On 20 July 2015, the United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution endorsing the JCPOA, said the EU in a statement.
This resolution provides for certain derogations from restrictions currently in place so as to allow the export of Iran's enriched uranium in excess of 300 kilograms in return for natural uranium, the modification of two cascades in Fordow and the modernization of the Arak reactor. (end)
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