{"id":81572,"date":"2016-03-14T20:42:31","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T20:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/nato-reaffirms-support-for-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2016-03-14T20:42:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T20:42:31","slug":"nato-reaffirms-support-for-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/nato-reaffirms-support-for-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO reaffirms support for Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"371\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/3 March\/15  Mar\/Ashraf_ghani.jpg\" width=\"660\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW): President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday thanked the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) for holding Afghanistan on top of its agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Ghani was addressing a joint presser flanked by the visiting NATO Chief Jens Stoltenberg at the Presidential Palace. The President said Kabul&rsquo;s cooperation and support with the NATO has strengthened manifolds.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that a number of countries around the world are striving to attract the attention of this important alliance.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ghani stated that despite the fact that Afghanistan is faced with a number of challenges but NATO is committed to standby demonstrates the confidence international community has in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"280\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/3 March\/15  Mar\/NATO-Secretary-General-Jens-Stoltenberg.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the occasion, the NATO Secretary General promised continues support for the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF).<\/p>\n<p>He also vowed to further strengthen the Afghan Air Force (AAF). He noted that in the upcoming NATO Summit, future strategy for Afghanistan would be discussed in details.<\/p>\n<p>Jens Stoltenberg also stressed upon the need for reforms in Afghanistan. He acknowledged 2015 was a tough year for Afghan forces, who continued to show resilience in protecting the people after taking full charge of security across the country.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday thanked the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) for holding Afghanistan on top of its agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-81572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}