{"id":13479,"date":"2023-02-11T13:54:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T13:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=13479"},"modified":"2023-02-11T13:54:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T13:54:56","slug":"russia-to-increase-fuel-food-supplies-to-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2023\/02\/russia-to-increase-fuel-food-supplies-to-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia to increase fuel, food supplies to Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211;\u00a0In an interview with &#8220;Russia 24&#8221; TV, Dmitry Zhirnov, the Russian ambassador to Afghanistan, said that this country will increase the volume of oil and food exports to Afghanistan using trade agreements.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Russian ambassador to Afghanistan, in the past year, trade exchanges between Russia and Afghanistan have increased by 40%.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the Islamic Emirate signed a provisional deal with Russia to supply gasoline, diesel, gas and wheat to Afghanistan, Acting Afghan Commerce and Industry Minister Haji Nooruddin Azizi told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__full_width__ekUdw body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__2p5pI\" data-testid=\"paragraph-1\">Azizi said his ministry was working to diversify its trading partners and that Russia had offered the Taliban administration a discount to average global commodity prices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__full_width__ekUdw body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__2p5pI\" data-testid=\"paragraph-2\">The move, the first known major international economic deal struck by the Taliban since they returned to power more than a year ago, could help to ease the Islamist movement&#8217;s isolation that has effectively cut it off from the global banking system.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-2\">ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211;\u00a0In an interview with &#8220;Russia 24&#8221; TV, Dmitry Zhirnov, the Russian ambassador to Afghanistan, said that this country will increase the volume of oil and food exports to Afghanistan using trade agreements. According to the Russian ambassador to Afghanistan, in the past year, trade exchanges between Russia and Afghanistan have increased by 40%. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,981],"tags":[12,264],"class_list":["post-13479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-economy","tag-afghanistan","tag-russia"],"views":125,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13481,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13479\/revisions\/13481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}