{"id":94008,"date":"2020-01-15T07:10:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T07:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/wj-okays-euro-65-million-rail-link-agreement\/"},"modified":"2020-01-15T07:10:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T07:10:41","slug":"wj-okays-euro-65-million-rail-link-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wj-okays-euro-65-million-rail-link-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"WJ Okays Euro 65 million rail link agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"521\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2020\/January\/15\/parliament 1.jpg\" width=\"782\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &ndash; The Wolesi Jirga (lower house) on Thursday approved the Euro 65 loan agreement with the Italian government with a majority vote.<\/p>\n<p>According to the budget and financial affairs commission of the house, these funds would be made available to the Afghan government by the Italian government for the Herat &ndash; Kawaf rail link with Iran. The funds would be released in three phases for the fourth phase of this railway line.<\/p>\n<p>As per the agreement, the loan agreement is for 40 years with a 29-year warning period, the budget and financial affairs commission said. After the briefing by the commission, the deal was tabled for voting, and it sailed through with a majority vote.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement for the fourth phase of Herat &#8211;&nbsp;Kawaf rail link was signed earlier this year between the Afghanistan Railway Authority and a private firm from Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 The Wolesi Jirga (lower house) on Thursday approved the Euro 65 loan agreement with the Italian government with a majority vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-94008","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\/94008","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=94008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}