{"id":35562,"date":"2021-08-21T01:54:57","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T16:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/aug\/20\/dominic-raab-insists-he-was-right-to-delegate-call-with-afghan-minister"},"modified":"2021-08-21T01:54:57","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T16:54:57","slug":"dominic-raab-insists-he-was-right-to-delegate-call-with-afghan-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35562","title":{"rendered":"Dominic Raab insists he was right to delegate call with Afghan minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign secretary says need for the call while he was in Crete was \u2018quickly overtaken by events\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Dominic Raab has confirmed he delegated a phone call with the Afghan foreign minister to a junior, and argued that it was the correct thing to do, in his first statement on events that have prompted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2021\/aug\/19\/dominic-raab-faces-pressure-from-opposition-and-tory-mps-to-resign\">widespread calls<\/a> for him to be sacked.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/foreign-secretary-statement-20-august-2021?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&amp;utm_source=99f08c1d-d272-485e-a6e9-576a98560bae&amp;utm_content=immediately\">brief statement<\/a>, the foreign secretary said that last Friday while he was on a family holiday in Crete, his private office was advised to call his Afghan counterpart, Hanif Atmar, but instead this was done by a junior minister.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/aug\/20\/dominic-raab-insists-he-was-right-to-delegate-call-with-afghan-minister\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign secretary says need for the call while he was in Crete was \u2018quickly overtaken by events\u2019Dominic Raab has confirmed he delegated a phone call with the Afghan foreign minister to a junior, and argued that it was the correct thing to do, in his fi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1457,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,904,950,319,1879,4,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-conservatives","category-dominic-raab","category-foreign-policy","category-foreign-commonwealth-and-development-office","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35563,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35562\/revisions\/35563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}