{"id":90973,"date":"2019-06-25T12:52:29","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T12:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/u-s-secretary-of-state-visits-kabul\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T13:12:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T13:12:42","slug":"u-s-secretary-of-state-visits-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/u-s-secretary-of-state-visits-kabul\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Secretary of State visits Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2019\/June\/25\/Capture.PNG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; The U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday briefly visited the Afghan capital Kabul on an unannounced trip to the insurgency-riddled country.<\/p>\n<p>&#39;&#39;Great visit to #Afghanistan today with productive discussions on the #AfghanPeaceProcess and the need for credible elections with President&nbsp;@ashrafghani, CEO, @afgexecutive, former President @KarzaiH, political parties, security forces &amp; civil society, including women&rsquo;s groups&#39;&#39;, he tweeted after meeting top Afghan officials at the Arg.<\/p>\n<p>&lsquo;&rsquo;Today we hosted <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecPompeo\">@SecPompeo<\/a> for a firsthand look at how NATO, Coalition and Afghan partners are working together to prevent terror attacks, protect our homelands and advance the opportunity for peace in Afghanistan&rsquo;&rsquo;, the non-anonymous, official Twitter for U.S. Forces-Afghanistan tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>President Ghani&#39;&#39;s office while thanking the U.S. for its efforts for peace stressed all international partners and friends should avoid sporadic and individual effort and instead support unified endeavour for peace.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as the U.S. and the Taliban are set to hold seventh round of talks for peace later this month in Doha, Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation,&nbsp;Zalmay Khalilzad,&nbsp;on Wednesday stressed that the aim behind the ongoing peace talks with the Taliban is a comprehensive peace deal, not a withdrawal agreement.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; The U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday briefly visited the Afghan capital Kabul on an unannounced trip to the insurgency-riddled country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-90973","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\/90973","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=90973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}