{"id":93992,"date":"2020-01-13T06:16:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T06:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/real-peace-will-come-from-an-intra-afghan-agreement\/"},"modified":"2020-01-13T06:16:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T06:16:01","slug":"real-peace-will-come-from-an-intra-afghan-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/real-peace-will-come-from-an-intra-afghan-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Real peace will come from an intra-Afghan agreement\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"262\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2020\/January\/13\/nicolas key (1) ok.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &ndash; Sir Nicholas Kay, NATO Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan, has said real peace will come from an intra-Afghan agreement that preserves the rights and freedoms Afghans have enjoyed for the last 18 years.<\/p>\n<p>He said this answering questions on Twitter as part of #AskNickKay live Q&amp;A session.<\/p>\n<p>He said 2020 should be different year for Afghanistan. &ldquo;ANDSF are stronger; international &amp; regional support for peace is solid; and some progress was made in 2019. #NATO commitment remains strong&rdquo;, he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>The NATO SCR stressed the Taliban must end violence. It is time to focus on the future for all Afghans.<\/p>\n<p>Answering a question posed by Salam Watandar about how soon after a likely agreement between the Taliban and the U.S. does he see the intra-Afghan discussions to begin and last considering there will be more items on agenda amid diverging interests?<\/p>\n<p>He said: &ldquo;&hellip; good question. It is important that intra-Afghan talks are inclusive. The speed of progress will be for the parties to determine&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as the Afghan government has clarified time and again that a comprehensive ceasefire remains a pre-condition for the peace talks.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 Sir Nicholas Kay, NATO Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan, has said real peace will come from an intra-Afghan agreement that preserves the rights and freedoms Afghans have enjoyed for the last 18 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-93992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93992","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=93992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}