{"id":17869,"date":"2025-02-17T12:20:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T06:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=17869"},"modified":"2025-02-17T12:20:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T06:35:15","slug":"taliban-delegation-visits-japan-in-rare-trip-outside-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/taliban-delegation-visits-japan-in-rare-trip-outside-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban delegation visits Japan in rare trip outside region"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>A Taliban government delegation was visiting Japan for the first time on Monday, in a rare diplomatic visit outside of the region.<\/p>\n<p>The Afghan delegation left Kabul on Saturday, in a visit that local media said would last one week and included officials from the higher education, foreign affairs, and economy ministries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We seek dignified interaction with the world for a strong, united, advanced, prosperous, developed Afghanistan and to be an active member of the international community,&#8221; Latif Nazari, a deputy minister at the ministry of economy who is part of the delegation, tweeted on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban government makes regular visits to neighbouring and regional countries, including in Central Asia, Russia and China.<\/p>\n<p>However, it has only officially visited Europe for diplomacy summits in Norway in 2022 and 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Japan&#8217;s embassy in Kabul temporarily relocated to Qatar after the fall of the previous foreign-backed government and the takeover by the Taliban in 2021.<br \/>\nHowever, it has since reopened and resumed diplomatic and humanitarian activities in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Taliban government delegation was visiting Japan for the first time on Monday, in a rare diplomatic visit outside of the region. The Afghan delegation left Kabul on Saturday, in a visit that local media said would last one week and included officials from the higher education, foreign affairs, and economy ministries. &#8220;We seek dignified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17871,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17869\/revisions\/17871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}