{"id":36204,"date":"2021-08-31T04:26:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T19:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/30\/western-powers-back-watered-down-un-draft-on-afghanistan"},"modified":"2021-08-31T04:26:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T19:26:02","slug":"western-powers-back-watered-down-un-draft-on-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36204","title":{"rendered":"Western powers back watered down UN draft on Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Security council resolution fails to spell out consequences for Taliban if it ignores calls<\/p>\n<p>Western powers have been forced to accept the reality of the Taliban\u2019s control of Afghanistan as they swung behind a watered down UN resolution that says it \u201cexpects\u201d the Taliban to honour a commitment to allow Afghans to leave the country and \u201crequests\u201d that Kabul airport be securely reopened, but falls short of demanding a UN-sponsored safe zone in the Afghan capital.<\/p>\n<p>A UN security council resolution suggests no specific reprisal if Afghanistan is sealed off after the 31 August deadline for the final US withdrawal that ends its near 20-year battle to crush the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/30\/western-powers-back-watered-down-un-draft-on-afghanistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security council resolution fails to spell out consequences for Taliban if it ignores callsWestern powers have been forced to accept the reality of the Taliban\u2019s control of Afghanistan as they swung behind a watered down UN resolution that says it \u201cexp&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"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":[46,319,526,44,84,45,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-foreign-policy","category-france","category-taliban","category-united-nations","category-us-foreign-policy","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\/36204","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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36205,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36204\/revisions\/36205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}