{"id":94656,"date":"2020-05-25T05:55:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T05:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/us-assures-to-push-for-long-term-ceasefire-in-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2020-05-25T05:55:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-25T05:55:42","slug":"us-assures-to-push-for-long-term-ceasefire-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/us-assures-to-push-for-long-term-ceasefire-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"US assures to push for long-term ceasefire in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/swn.af\/pictures\/fileman\/2017_Uploads\/2020\/May\/25\/GHANI%20AND%20ABDULLAH.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &ndash; The US has vowed to push for long-term ceasefire or reduction in violence in Afghanistan, an official statement said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the presidency, last night President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and chairman High Council for National Reconciliation, Abdullah Abdullah received a call from Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo. &ldquo;He thanked the Afghan government for initiating the brave process of releasing up to 2,000 Taliban prisoners. He asserted that the U.S. will push for a long-term ceasefire\/RiV and start of direct negotiations&rdquo;, the Arg tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary Pompeo has welcome the announcements by the Taliban and the Afghan government of a three-day Eid ceasefire. &ldquo;This presents a tremendous opportunity for Afghans to overcome other obstacles and move urgently to intra Afghan negotiations that end the war.2\/2 intra-Afghan negotiations and to pave the way for further progress which is to follow. The Islamic Emirate is committed to release of prisoners on its own part&rdquo;, he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, spokesman for the Taliban&rsquo;s Qatar office, Suhail Shaheen has also hailed release of 2000 prisoners by the Afghan government. &ldquo;The stipulation in Doha Agreement for release of 5000 prisoners was to create a conducive atmosphere of confidence. This process should be completed in order to remove hurdles in the way of commencement of intra-Afghan negotiations and to pave the way for further progress which is to follow. &ldquo;The Islamic Emirate (Taliban) is committed to release of prisoners on its own part&rdquo;, he said.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 The US has vowed to push for long-term ceasefire or reduction in violence in Afghanistan, an official statement said on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-94656","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\/94656","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=94656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}