{"id":90477,"date":"2019-04-10T07:18:12","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T07:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/afghan-government-will-be-a-meaningful-participant-in-any-peace-deal\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T13:07:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T13:07:08","slug":"afghan-government-will-be-a-meaningful-participant-in-any-peace-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/afghan-government-will-be-a-meaningful-participant-in-any-peace-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Afghan government will be a meaningful participant in any peace deal\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2019\/April\/10\/Pompeo.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>MONITORING (SW) &ndash; The U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, has told Senate Appropriations Committee the Afghan government will be a meaningful participant in any peace deal with the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>During the hearing on Tuesday, Republican U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, flatly rejected President Donald Trump&#39;s request to slash the budget for the U.S. State Department by more than 23 percent.<\/p>\n<p>He said the best thing to do to defeat the radical ideology is to invest in the lives of others.&nbsp; &ldquo;A small school house in a poor region of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, you name the location, Africa, can do more damage to radical Islam than any bomb.&nbsp; Giving a woman a say about the future of her children is absolutely imperative to win this conflict&rdquo;, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary Pompeo said on the occasion the counterterrorism interests would be protected in Afghanistan, and the U.S. would make sure that the ISIS and al-Qaida do not take over Afghanistan.&nbsp;Responding to a question, he said if the Taliban are reintegrated back into the Afghan community it would be on the U.S. terms, not the Taliban&rsquo;s.<\/p>\n<p>When Chairman Graham asked Secretary Pompeo when it comes to Afghanistan, can he assure this committee and the world that the Afghan government will be a meaningful participant in any peace deal? &ldquo;More than that, they will be at the center.&nbsp; It will be Afghan-led&rdquo;, he responded.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) \u2013 The U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, has told Senate Appropriations Committee the Afghan government will be a meaningful participant in any peace deal with the Taliban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-90477","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\/90477","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=90477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}