{"id":94507,"date":"2020-04-25T06:59:38","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T06:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/khalilzad-calls-for-end-to-the-political-crisis\/"},"modified":"2020-04-25T06:59:38","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T06:59:38","slug":"khalilzad-calls-for-end-to-the-political-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/khalilzad-calls-for-end-to-the-political-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Khalilzad calls for end to the political crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/swn.af\/pictures\/fileman\/2017_Uploads\/2020\/april\/25\/Khalilzzad.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nMONITORING (SW) &#8211; The U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, has welcomed NATO&rsquo;s statement focused on key next steps the alliance judged necessary for peace and stability in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>In a series of tweets, Zalmay Khalilzad reiterated the need for a humanitarian ceasefire to help manage COVID-19 outbreaks, urged the Taliban to reduce violence, called on the Afghan govt to end the political crisis, and said all sides should move more quickly on prisoner releases.<\/p>\n<p>&#39;How urgently and with what conviction the sides respond to these steps will determine whether Afghanistan moves forward or remains mired in war, poverty, and disease&#39;, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Khalilzad said the US-Taliban agreement provides a historic opportunity for Afghanistan. &#39;The US and our allies, indeed the international community, call on Afghan leaders to put their country and their people first&#39;, he added.<\/p>\n<p>\nENDS<!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/share\/clipdata_200425_165601_684.sdoc--><br \/>\n<!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/share\/clipdata_200425_163141_135.sdoc--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; The U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, has welcomed NATO\u2019s statement focused on key next steps the alliance judged necessary for peace and stability in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-94507","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\/94507","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=94507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}