{"id":36826,"date":"2021-09-14T02:30:38","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T17:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/sep\/14\/australian-foreign-minister-was-told-to-close-embassy-before-may-visit-to-kabul-documents-reveal"},"modified":"2021-09-14T02:30:38","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T17:30:38","slug":"australian-foreign-minister-was-told-to-close-embassy-before-may-visit-to-kabul-documents-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36826","title":{"rendered":"Australian foreign minister was told to close embassy before May visit to Kabul, documents reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dfat timeline shows Marise Payne received formal advice to shutter embassy five days before meeting with then-president Ashraf Ghani<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our free news app<\/a>;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\"> get our morning email briefing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Defence and intelligence chiefs warned the Australian government multiple times in April the situation in Afghanistan could become dangerous enough to force the closure of the embassy, it has been revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade had been in talks with the Department of Defence since January 2021 about the \u201cdeteriorating security situation\u201d, but the warnings about the diplomatic mission in Kabul were made shortly after the US announced plans to withdraw from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/sep\/14\/australian-foreign-minister-was-told-to-close-embassy-before-may-visit-to-kabul-documents-reveal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dfat timeline shows Marise Payne received formal advice to shutter embassy five days before meeting with then-president Ashraf GhaniGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingDefence and intelligence chiefs warned the Australian government mu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2085,"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":[46,43,645,1585,324,325,61,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-australian-military","category-australian-politics","category-marise-payne","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36826","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\/2085"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36827,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36826\/revisions\/36827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}