{"id":606001,"date":"2021-07-29T14:06:30","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T18:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=606001"},"modified":"2021-07-29T14:06:33","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T18:06:33","slug":"blinken-warns-of-taliban-control-preaches-path-to-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blinken-warns-of-taliban-control-preaches-path-to-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Blinken warns of Taliban control, preaches path to peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fblinken-warns-of-taliban-control-preaches-path-to-peace%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=606001&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2474450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2474450\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken participates in a news conference with Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kuwait City, Kuwait, Thursday, July 29, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst\/Pool via AP)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 10:56 AM PT \u2013 Thursday, July 29, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken addressed the recent Taliban attacks on civilians in Afghanistan. During a press conference in India on Wednesday, he warned that if the Taliban continues to take power then the country will become isolated on the world stage<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Taliban forces have seized multiple strategic border crossings in Afghanistan, in turn, threatening multiple provincial capitals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have also seen these reports of atrocities committed by the Taliban in areas that it has taken over that are deeply, deeply troubling,\u201d Blinken stated. \u201cAnd certainly do not speak well of the Taliban\u2019s intentions for the country as a whole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary of State went on to say the only way to resolve the conflict peacefully is at the negotiating table.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe taking over the country by force and abusing the rights of its people is not the path to achieve those objectives,\u201d he continued. \u201cThere\u2019s only one path and that\u2019s at the negotiating table to resolve the conflict peacefully, and to have an Afghanistan emerged that is governed in a genuinely inclusive way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, enemy-initiated attacks have surged from January to March with officials reporting over 10,000 attacks just this year. In the wake of the rise in violence, representatives for the terrorist organization are looking for support to carry out their campaign.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Chinese officials met with a delegation from the Taliban in order to discuss the \u201cpeaceful reconciliation and reconstruction in Afghanistan\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Afghan Taliban is an important military and political force in Afghanistan, and is expected to play an important role in the country\u2019s peace, reconciliation and reconstruction process,\u201d stated Zhao Lijian, a spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry. \u201cWe hope that the Afghan Taliban will put the interests of the country and nation first, hold high the banner of peace talks, set the goal of peace, build a positive image and pursue an inclusive policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">China hopes the Afghan <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Taliban?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Taliban<\/a> will put Afghanistan&#8217;s national interests first, uphold commitment to peace talks, embrace the goal of peace, create a positive image and adopt an inclusive policy. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GVQKz2kTma\">pic.twitter.com\/GVQKz2kTma<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Spokesperson\u53d1\u8a00\u4eba\u529e\u516c\u5ba4 (@MFA_China) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MFA_China\/status\/1420319594368012290?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In the meantime, the U.S. said it will conduct airstrikes against the terrorist organization as remaining forces continue to withdraw from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wall-to-wall-chris-markowski-on-july-fed-decision\/\">Wall To Wall: Chris Markowski On July Fed Decision<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken participates in a news conference with Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kuwait City, Kuwait, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}