{"id":6656,"date":"2021-10-16T17:03:49","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T17:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=6656"},"modified":"2021-10-16T17:03:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T17:03:49","slug":"taliban-set-to-attend-moscow-meeting-on-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2021\/10\/taliban-set-to-attend-moscow-meeting-on-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban set to attend Moscow meeting on Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; A delegation of the Taliban will take part in the Moscow-format meeting on Afghanistan, which is being hosted by Russia on October 20, reported Sputnik.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<header>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>The delegation will be headed by Abdul Salam Hanafi, deputy prime minister of the interim Afghan government, Afghan Foreign Ministry&#8217;s spokesman, Abdul Qahar Balkhi, wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>According to his statement, the Taliban plan to hold negotiations with representatives of different countries on issues of mutual interest during their visit to Moscow<a href=\"https:\/\/wap.business-standard.com\/amp\/topic\/moscow\">.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Moscow-format meeting is due on October 20. The Moscow-format was introduced in 2017 on the basis of the six-party mechanism for consultations between special representatives from Russia, Afghanistan, China, Pakistan, Iran, and India, the Russian news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that Moscow was expecting the arrival of a large Taliban delegation for consultations on Afghanistan next week. Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that preparations for contacts on Afghanistan were underway, TASS reported.<\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s participation is likely at the level of joint secretary.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; A delegation of the Taliban will take part in the Moscow-format meeting on Afghanistan, which is being hosted by Russia on October 20, reported Sputnik<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,5,8,4,6,7],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-6656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-peace","category-politics_","category-governance","category-news_","category-afghanistan","category-headline","tag-afghanistan"],"views":558,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6656","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=6656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}