{"id":90897,"date":"2019-06-15T04:24:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T04:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/the-opportunity-for-peace-is-strong-and-real\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T13:11:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T13:11:47","slug":"the-opportunity-for-peace-is-strong-and-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/the-opportunity-for-peace-is-strong-and-real\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe opportunity for peace is strong and real\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"327\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2019\/June\/15\/NATO SCR.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>MONITORING (SW) &ndash; Ambassador Sir Nicholas Kay, the NATO&rsquo;s Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan, has said the opportunity for peace after 40 years of conflict is strong and real.<\/p>\n<p>He said this while visiting the NATO headquarters to meet the Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and representatives of allies and partners involved in Afghanistan. &ldquo;Afghanistan is at an historic moment, the opportunity for peace after 40 years of conflict is strong and real&rdquo;, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Kay said the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces that the NATO trains are achieving on the battlefield what the Afghan people want, which is peace. &ldquo;We call upon the Taliban to sit in an intra-Afghan dialoged with fellow Afghans and the government of Afghanistan as soon as possible to reach a negotiated end to this conflict&rdquo;, he said, adding the Afghan people demand peace and reduction in violence and the Taliban should respect the will of the Afghan people.<\/p>\n<p>He added the NATO allies are working closely with the people and government in Afghanistan to bring conditions for lasting peace.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) \u2013 Ambassador Sir Nicholas Kay, the NATO\u2019s Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan, has said the opportunity for peace after 40 years of conflict is strong and real<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-90897","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\/90897","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=90897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}