{"id":13306,"date":"2025-07-12T05:10:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T05:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=13306"},"modified":"2025-07-12T05:10:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T05:10:46","slug":"uzbekistan-considers-upgrading-relations-with-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2025\/07\/12\/uzbekistan-considers-upgrading-relations-with-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Uzbekistan considers upgrading relations with Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TASHKENT: The Foreign Minister of Uzbekistan, Bakhtiyor Saidov, has stated that his country is exploring the possibility of enhancing relations with Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He made the remarks during a meeting with Shaikh Abdul Ghafar Bahar, the Islamic Emirate ambassador to Uzbekistan, the embassy said in a statement on Friday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the statement, the Afghan ambassador viewed the elevation of relations between Kabul and Tashkent as a significant step toward strengthening economic, cultural, and commercial ties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The discussions also included ways to bolster political and economic relations, with topics such as the Afghan-Trans project, visa facilitation for Afghan traders, and simplifying border procedures to boost trade between Uzbekistan and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the statement, Uzbekistan&#8217;s Foreign Minister welcomed the active role of the Afghan embassy in fostering relations between the two countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This comes as Russia officially recognized the Islamic Emirate as the legitimate authority in the country about&nbsp;ten&nbsp;days&nbsp;ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TASHKENT: The Foreign Minister of Uzbekistan, Bakhtiyor Saidov, has stated that his country is exploring the possibility of enhancing relations with Afghanistan. He made the remarks during a meeting with Shaikh Abdul Ghafar Bahar, the Islamic Emirate ambassador to Uzbekistan, the embassy said in a statement on Friday night. According to the statement, the Afghan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[82],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13309,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13306\/revisions\/13309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}