{"id":9672,"date":"2025-02-17T14:23:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T09:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=9672"},"modified":"2025-02-17T14:23:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T09:23:51","slug":"afghan-taliban-delegation-visits-japan-in-rare-trip-outside-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/asia\/afghan-taliban-delegation-visits-japan-in-rare-trip-outside-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan Taliban delegation visits Japan in rare trip outside region"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\n\n\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\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe seek dignified interaction with the world for a strong, united, advanced, prosperous, developed Afghanistan and to be an active member of the international community,\u201d Latif Nazari, a deputy minister at the ministry of economy who is part of the delegation,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Drnazari18\/status\/1890721833093087732\">tweeted<\/a>&nbsp;on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Taliban government makes regular visits to neighbouring and regional countries, including in Central Asia, Russia and China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, it has only officially visited Europe for diplomacy summits in Norway in 2022 and 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Japan\u2019s embassy in Kabul temporarily relocated to Qatar after the fall of the previous foreign-backed government and the takeover by the Taliban in 2021. But it has since reopened and resumed diplomatic and humanitarian activities in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Afghan delegation plans to \u201cexchange views with Japanese government officials during their stay\u201d, Japan\u2019s public broadcaster&nbsp;<em>NHK<\/em>&nbsp;reported, citing unnamed Afghan diplomatic sources.<\/p>","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. \u201cWe seek dignified [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":9673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,80,396],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-asia","category-latest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}