{"id":91580,"date":"2019-11-02T08:03:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T08:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/reduction-in-violence-necessary-to-bring-about-a-lasting-peace\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T13:19:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T13:19:42","slug":"reduction-in-violence-necessary-to-bring-about-a-lasting-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/reduction-in-violence-necessary-to-bring-about-a-lasting-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Reduction in violence necessary to bring about a lasting peace\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2019\/November\/02\/khalilzad 1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &ndash; The U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation has stressed reduction in violence is necessary to bring about a lasting peace.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement issued by the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan, Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad visited Kabul from October 26 to October 28 and from October 29 to November 1.&nbsp; &ldquo;The Special Representative met with President Ghani, Chief Executive Abdullah, and other government officials.&nbsp; The Special Representative briefed the government on his recent consultations with allies, partners, and other countries in the region.&nbsp; He also met with former officials, members of civil society, and the religious community to brief them and to hear their views on the peace process&rdquo;, it said. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The statement added that the Special Representative underscored that the United States supports a political settlement to end the war in Afghanistan, and that a reduction in violence is necessary to bring about a lasting peace.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 The U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation has stressed reduction in violence is necessary to bring about a lasting peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-91580","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\/91580","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=91580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}