{"id":84960,"date":"2017-06-06T02:56:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T02:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/kabul-initiative-for-peace-and-security-cooperation-kicks-off\/"},"modified":"2017-06-06T02:56:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T02:56:04","slug":"kabul-initiative-for-peace-and-security-cooperation-kicks-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/kabul-initiative-for-peace-and-security-cooperation-kicks-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Kabul Initiative for Peace and Security Cooperation\u2019 kicks off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"327\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/6 June\/Kabul Initiative Conference.JPG\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (AA): The capital Kabul on Tuesday hosted representatives from some 25 countries for Kabul Initiative for Peace and Security Cooperation conference.<\/p>\n<p>The conference commenced with a minute silence for the victims of latest terrorist attacks in Kabul. In his welcome address at the conference, President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani said Taliban-sponsored terrorism is creating platform that is bringing terrorists to Afghanistan and Pakistan. &ldquo;We want to talk peace with the Taliban, but not open-ended opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>He added up to 11000 foreign militants have to Afghanistan in the last two years alone to fight for Daesh. The Afghan President said terrorist attacks insult justice. &ldquo;Muslims are the innocent victims of what rebels claim to be a religious war&rdquo;, he added.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S, the EU, NATO, China, Canada, Norway, Turkey, India, Pakistan are among the 25 countries and organisations attending the conference.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Cornelius Zimmerman, the NATO&rsquo;s Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan, has also expressed his support for the efforts to achieve an Afghan-owned and Afghan-led peace process in the country. &ldquo;I am pleased to see the will and determination of the Afghan government to hold the Kabul Initiative for Peace and Security Cooperation conference at a time when a dark week in the history of Afghanistan has just passed. This demonstrated the unwavering resolve of the government for fight against terrorism and for ensuring peace for all Afghans&rdquo;, he said in a message.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (AA): The capital Kabul on Tuesday hosted representatives from some 25 countries for Kabul Initiative for Peace and Security Cooperation conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-84960","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\/84960","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=84960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}