{"id":37380,"date":"2021-09-27T13:00:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T04:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/27\/ambassador-in-limbo-makes-plea-for-afghans-to-be-allowed-into-eu"},"modified":"2021-09-27T13:00:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T04:00:30","slug":"ambassador-in-limbo-makes-plea-for-afghans-to-be-allowed-into-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37380","title":{"rendered":"Ambassador in limbo makes plea for Afghans to be allowed into EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Afghan government\u2019s ambassador in Greece appalled by Athens\u2019 media blitz against \u2018illegal migrant flows\u2019<\/p>\n<p>In other times, Mirwais Samadi would have welcomed a campaign to deter his compatriots from opting to become illegal migrants and embarking on the often dangerous trek from Afghanistan to Europe.<\/p>\n<p>By far the worst part of his job as Afghanistan\u2019s ambassador to Athens \u2013 apart from the strange limbo he has found himself in representing a nation whose leaders he refuses to recognise \u2013 is notifying families back home of loved ones who died along the way. Invariably they are the victims of smuggling networks motivated solely by profit.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/27\/ambassador-in-limbo-makes-plea-for-afghans-to-be-allowed-into-eu\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Afghan government\u2019s ambassador in Greece appalled by Athens\u2019 media blitz against \u2018illegal migrant flows\u2019In other times, Mirwais Samadi would have welcomed a campaign to deter his compatriots from opting to become illegal migrants and embarking o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":678,"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":[46,221,402,491,494,61,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-europe","category-greece","category-migration","category-refugees","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","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\/37380","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\/678"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37381,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37380\/revisions\/37381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}