{"id":11354,"date":"2021-09-07T10:27:20","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T02:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=11354"},"modified":"2021-09-07T10:27:21","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T02:27:21","slug":"qatars-emir-discusses-afghanistan-with-us-secretaries-of-state-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=11354","title":{"rendered":"Qatar&#8217;s Emir discusses Afghanistan with US Secretaries of State, Defence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>DOHA, Sept 7 &#8212; The&nbsp;Emir&nbsp;of&nbsp;Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani&nbsp;held talks&nbsp;with the visiting US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin,&nbsp;about Afghanistan after the seizure of power in the country by the Taliban, the&nbsp;Emir&#8217;s office said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey discussed the development of events in Afghanistan and the efforts being made to enhance security and stability in the country,\u201d\u00a0Sputnik reported, quoting the office as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-07-at-10.24.55.png\" alt=\"emir\" class=\"wp-image-11355\" width=\"525\" height=\"325\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It said the US\u00a0secretaries of state and defense\u00a0conveyed to the Emir of Qatar the gratitude and appreciation of the US President for Qatar\u2019s efforts in\u00a0supporting the peace process in Afghanistan and its key role in the evacuation of US citizens, troops of allied countries, and Afghans from the country, as well as for the peace talks in Doha between the Taliban and the United States, and Qatar\u2019s diplomatic role in maintaining peace in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernama.com\/en\/news.php?id=2000568\">BERNAMA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOHA, Sept 7 &#8212; The&nbsp;Emir&nbsp;of&nbsp;Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani&nbsp;held talks&nbsp;with the visiting US&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsium-slider-full":"","newsium-featured":"","newsium-medium":""},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=59\" rel=\"category\">World<\/a>","tag_info":"World","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11356,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11354\/revisions\/11356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}