{"id":90839,"date":"2019-05-12T08:09:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T08:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/u-s-deputy-assistant-secretary-alice-wells-visits-kabul\/"},"modified":"2019-05-12T08:09:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T08:09:14","slug":"u-s-deputy-assistant-secretary-alice-wells-visits-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/u-s-deputy-assistant-secretary-alice-wells-visits-kabul\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary Alice Wells visits Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"327\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2019\/May\/12\/1962945-alicewellsx-1556646457-568-640x480.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; U.S. State Department Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Alice Wells arrived today in Kabul to participate in the opening of the U.S.-Afghan Civilian Assistance Review.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, the Review will strengthen Afghan institutions and promote Afghan self-reliance, and is an element of the investment the U.S. makes in the social and economic development of Afghanistan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During her visit, Wells will meet with stakeholders of the September 28 Afghan Presidential Elections to learn about ongoing preparations and underscore U.S. commitment to a transparent and efficient presidential elections process.&nbsp; She will meet with men and women from civil society to hear their views on peace and reaffirm U.S. support for a peaceful, stable Afghanistan.&nbsp; She will also celebrate Ramadan at an Iftar with Afghan civil society leaders, it added.<\/p>\n<p>The statement said she will meet with President Ashraf Ghani, CEO Abdullah Abdullah, and a variety of other Afghan leaders and civil society figures.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; U.S. State Department Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Alice Wells arrived today in Kabul to participate in the opening of the U.S.-Afghan Civilian Assistance Review.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-90839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90839","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=90839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}