Five Taliban members, including a former Afghan ambassador to the United Nations, have been taken off a UN sanctions terrorism list, Austria's UN mission said Friday.

The five were Abdul Satar Paktin; Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad Awrang, a former Afghan envoy to the UN; Abdul Salam Zaeef, author of "My life with the Taliban;" and two officials who are now deceased.

Austria chairs the UN Security Council panel that maintains a blacklist of individuals and entities linked to al-Qaeda and the Taliban.

The panel is to complete its review of the blacklist, which until now included 137 Afghan nationals, Saturday and will unveil its full results on Monday.

Individuals on the list are subject to asset freezes, a travel ban and an arms embargo.

As part of his efforts to promote national reconciliation, Afghan President Hamid Karzai had asked the Security Council to remove the names of some Taliban members who were not linked to Al-Qaeda from the terror blacklist.

The Karzai government has set conditions for peace talks with Taliban insurgents, demanding militants renounce violence, accept the Afghan constitution and rescind ties with Al-Qaeda.

The Afghan reportedly sought the removal of up to 50 former Taliban officials from the blacklist, which contains nearly 500 names, including those of a number of persons now deceased.

Last January, the sanctions panel had already removed five top Taliban officials from its list.

The five then delisted were Abdul Wakil Mutawakil, who was foreign minister under the now ousted Taliban regime; Faiz Mohammad Faizan, a former deputy commerce minister; Shams-US-Safa, a former foreign ministry official; Mohammad Musa, a deputy planning minister; and Abdul Hakim, a former deputy frontier affairs minister.

The UN blacklist was established under UN Security Council Resolution 1267, adopted in October 1999 for the purpose of overseeing implementation of sanctions imposed on Taliban-controlled Afghanistan for its support of Osama bin Laden's extremist network.

Under the resolution, UN member states are required to impose travel bans, an asset freeze and an arms embargo on any individual or entity associated with Al-Qaeda, bin Laden and/or the Taliban.

Removal from the list requires unanimous approval from all 15 members of the Security Council's sanctions panel.

The UN blacklist list with all its entries is available on the Internet at: http://www.un.org/sc/committees/1267/index.shtml.