{"id":83162,"date":"2016-10-30T08:55:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T08:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/afghanistan-all-set-to-pursue-bid-for-sco-membership\/"},"modified":"2016-10-30T08:55:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T08:55:58","slug":"afghanistan-all-set-to-pursue-bid-for-sco-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/afghanistan-all-set-to-pursue-bid-for-sco-membership\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan all set to pursue bid for SCO membership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"272\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/10 October\/30 Oct\/faisal.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW): Afghanistan is all set to pursue its bid for membership at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization later this week.<\/p>\n<p>The 15<sup>th<\/sup> annual gathering of the SCO is set to take place in Kirghizstan by the end of this week. leading a high level Afghan delegation, Abdullah Abdullah, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), would attend this conference to pursue the matter of Afghanistan&rsquo;s membership.<\/p>\n<p>Jawid Faisal, the deputy spokesperson for the CEO, told Salam Watandar that the conference would take place on 2<sup>nd<\/sup>&nbsp;of November in Bishkek, capital for Kirghizstan. He added that on the sidelines of the conference,&nbsp;the CEO would discuss security issues and matters relating to regional cooperation with representatives of the member states.<\/p>\n<p>The deputy spokesperson for the CEO added that efforts for&nbsp;getting&nbsp;membership (SCO) were initiated years ago and it is hoped Afghanistan&nbsp;would soon&nbsp;become a permanent member of the SCO. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan has participated as an observer at the SCO&rsquo;s previous conferences. Indian and Pakistan are also looking for permanent membership in the SCO.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): Afghanistan is all set to pursue its bid for membership at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) later this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-83162","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\/83162","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=83162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}