{"id":110425,"date":"2020-11-21T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T20:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=110425"},"modified":"2020-11-21T12:00:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T20:00:58","slug":"secretary-pompeos-met-with-the-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=110425","title":{"rendered":"Secretary Pompeo Met with the Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doha, Qata&#8230;Secretary of State Michael R.\u202fPompeo met today with Taliban Political Deputy and Head of the Political Office Mullah Beradar and members of the Taliban negotiating team in Doha, Qatar.\u00a0 Secretary Pompeo commended both sides for continuing to negotiate and for the progress they have made.\u00a0 He called for a significant reduction in violence and encouraged expedited discussions on a political roadmap and a permanent and comprehensive ceasefire.\u00a0 Secretary Pompeo reiterated that the people of Afghanistan expect and deserve to live in peace and security after 40 years of war and bloodshed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-110256\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/statedept.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/statedept.png 600w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/statedept-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/statedept-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/statedept-570x570.png 570w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/statedept-30x30.png 30w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The above is attributable to Principal Deputy Spokesperson Cale Brown:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doha, Qata&#8230;Secretary of State Michael R.\u202fPompeo met today with Taliban Political Deputy and Head of the Political Office Mullah Beradar and members of the Taliban negotiating team in Doha, Qatar.\u00a0 Secretary Pompeo commended both sides for continuing to negotiate and for the progress they have made.\u00a0 He called for a significant reduction in violence and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":110256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/statedept.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/110256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}