{"id":90403,"date":"2019-03-31T08:35:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T08:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/uzbekistan-offers-to-host-talks-between-taliban-and-the-government\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T13:06:07","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T13:06:07","slug":"uzbekistan-offers-to-host-talks-between-taliban-and-the-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/uzbekistan-offers-to-host-talks-between-taliban-and-the-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Uzbekistan offers to host talks between Taliban and the government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"595\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2019\/March\/31\/\u0627\u0632\u0628\u06a9\u0633\u062a\u0627\u0646 \u06f3.jpg\" width=\"960\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; Uzbekistan has offered to host direct talks for peace between the Afghan government and the Taliban in the historic city of Tashkent.<\/p>\n<p>A delegation from Uzbekistan, headed by Viktor Mahmudov, National Security Adviser, along with the Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov and other officials called on President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani at the presidency today.<\/p>\n<p>President Ghani has welcomed the growing regional cooperation that can promote stability. &ldquo;President Ghani also appreciated the readiness of Uzbekistan to host peace talks, saying that Samarkand is a common cultural heritage of the two countries&rdquo;, a statement by the presidency stated.<\/p>\n<p>The government in Uzbekistan under President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has expressed keen interest in the Afghan peace process as a neutral mediator.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as the Taliban have so far shown no willingness to hold direct talks with the Kabul government which is reportedly busy in consultation to form a comprehensive and inclusive peace&nbsp; team.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; Uzbekistan has offered to host direct talks for peace between the Afghan government and the Taliban in the historic city of Tashkent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-90403","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\/90403","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=90403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}