{"id":2918,"date":"2020-09-02T07:24:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T07:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caps.af\/?p=2918"},"modified":"2020-09-02T07:24:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T07:24:37","slug":"ghani-hails-regional-support-for-afghan-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caps.af\/?p=2918","title":{"rendered":"Ghani hails regional support for Afghan peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">(Pajhwok): Afghan Ambassador to Sri Lanka Mohammad Ashraf Haidari on Wednesday said President Ashraf Ghani has welcomed his Sri Lankan counterpart\u2019s warm congratulatory message to the government and people of <a class=\"glossify-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pajhwok.com\/en\/afghanistan\">Afghanistan<\/a>\u00a0on the 101<sup>st<\/sup> Anniversary of Reclamation of Afghanistan\u2019s Independence. He told Pajhwok Afghan News: \u201cAs part of the ongoing high-level exchanges between the leaders of the friendly governments of Afghanistan and Sri Lanka, President Ghani recently sent a thank-you letter to his Sri Lankan counterpart Gotabaya Rajapaksa\u2026\u201d Ghani appreciated the Sri Lankan leader\u2019s warm congratulatory message to the government and people of Afghanistan on the 101<sup>st<\/sup> Anniversary of Reclamation of Afghanistan\u2019s Independence, which the Afghans at home and abroad celebrated on August 18, 2020. \u201cWe take note of our common values, which underpin our shared efforts for stronger ties. In this light, we are committed to further expanding relations between our two countries,\u201d President Ghani wrote to Rajapaksa. To that end, the President said: \u201cAs the Afghan people have reached a critical point in our efforts for achieving lasting peace and stability, the support by the friendly country of Sri Lanka under your leadership for the Afghan peace process is of great importance, Haidari added. \u201cIndeed, regional cooperation is the key to addressing the intertwined challenges of terrorism, extremism, and criminality, which confront Afghanistan, while destabilising regional security and stability,\u201d he added. \u201cWith Afghanistan as the land-bridge between South and Central Asia, it is obvious that the imposed war in the country harms the shared interests of the whole region,\u201d the ambassador argued. When Haidari recently called on Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, he highlighted the importance of enhanced regional economic and security cooperation to exploit common opportunities for business and investment across the region and to work together for securing sustainable peace in Afghanistan based on a consolidation of the country\u2019s hard-earned 19-year gains. \u201cAs two democracies, we immensely count on Sri Lanka\u2019s continued support for the democratic process in Afghanistan and look forward to further building on our strong ties, which also promote win-win regional cooperation for shared peace and prosperity,\u201d added the ambassador.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Pajhwok): Afghan Ambassador to Sri Lanka Mohammad Ashraf Haidari on Wednesday said President Ashraf Ghani has welcomed his Sri Lankan counterpart\u2019s warm congratulatory message to the government and people of Afghanistan\u00a0on the 101st Anniversary of Reclamation of Afghanistan\u2019s Independence. He told Pajhwok Afghan News: \u201cAs part of the ongoing high-level exchanges between the leaders of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archived-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2919,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918\/revisions\/2919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}