{"id":83290,"date":"2016-11-12T05:21:37","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T05:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/germany-reiterates-resolve-for-peace-in-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2016-11-12T05:21:37","modified_gmt":"2016-11-12T05:21:37","slug":"germany-reiterates-resolve-for-peace-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/germany-reiterates-resolve-for-peace-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany reiterates resolve for peace in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"327\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/11 Novomber\/12 Nov\/Germany Afghanistan.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL\/ MAZAR-E-SHARIF (SW): The German diplomatic mission in Afghanistan has reiterated its resolve to assist Afghanistan become peaceful and prosperous.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, at least six civilians died and many more wounded as a suicide bomber detonated his explosives near the German Consulate in Balkh province. The fatal attack targeted the German consulate in the Mazar-e-Sharif city. Rezaq Qadiri, the security chief in the province, told Salam Watandar that suicide bomber rammed a truck loaded with explosives into the German consulate, killing at least 6 civilians and wounding 33. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.<\/p>\n<p>President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has strongly condemned the attack. The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) also condemned it.<\/p>\n<p>The German diplomatic mission in Afghanistan, while condemning the attack, reiterated its resolve to help Afghanistan become safe and prospers. Walter Hassmann, German Ambassador in Afghanistan said in a message on Saturday that by claiming civilian lives, the Taliban have once again uncovered the hatred they have towards the human beings.<\/p>\n<p>The German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier expressed his condolences to the victims. An official statement quoted him as saying that &quot;all German and Afghan employees of the consulate remained unharmed.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Germany has 983 soldiers serving with NATO&rsquo;s Resolute Support military mission in Afghanistan, most of them stationed in Balkh province, of which Mazar-i-Sharif is the capital.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL\/ MAZAR-E-SHARIF (SW): The German diplomatic mission in Afghanistan has reiterated its resolve to assist Afghanistan become peaceful and prosperous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-83290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83290","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=83290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}