{"id":94547,"date":"2020-05-04T09:01:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T09:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/nato-picks-new-civilian-envoy-for-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2020-05-04T09:01:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T09:01:42","slug":"nato-picks-new-civilian-envoy-for-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/nato-picks-new-civilian-envoy-for-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO picks new civilian envoy for Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/swn.af\/pictures\/fileman\/2017_Uploads\/2020\/May\/4\/NATO%20NNN.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nKABUL (SW) &#8211; NATO has appointed senior Italian diplomat, Stefano Pontecorvo as new Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was made by the NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. &ldquo;I am glad to announce that I have appointed Amb @pontecorvoste as NATO&rsquo;s next Senior Civilian Representative in #Afghanistan. Amb Pontecorvo will take up his post on 1 June&quot;, he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>He expressed the Alliance&#39;s support for Afghanistan on the occasion. &ldquo;NATO Allies and our partner countries remain firmly committed to Afghanistan&rsquo;s long-term security, which is important for our own security. I thank our outgoing Senior Civilian representative Ambassador Sir Nicholas Kay for his outstanding service, and his contributions to the cause of peace and security for all Afghans&quot;, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The newly appointed SCR has thanked the NATO leadership for the move. &quot;Thank you very much for your trust @jensstoltenberg and thanks to @NicholasK111for your unyielding efforts in support of peace in #Afghanistan. Looking forward to taking up the position as @NATOscr at this important juncture for the country&quot;, Pontecorvo tweeted in response.<\/p>\n<p>In his previous posting, Ambassador Stefano served as Italian envoy in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>\nENDS<br \/>\n<!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/share\/clipdata_200504_183332_450.sdoc--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; NATO has appointed senior Italian diplomat, Stefano Pontecorvo as new Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-94547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94547","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=94547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}