{"id":25724,"date":"2026-10-06T07:12:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T07:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=25724"},"modified":"2026-10-06T07:12:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T07:12:27","slug":"former-un-representative-for-afghanistan-benon-sevan-dies-at-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/10\/06\/former-un-representative-for-afghanistan-benon-sevan-dies-at-88\/","title":{"rendered":"Former UN representative for Afghanistan Benon Sevan dies at 88"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: Benon Sevan, a Cypriot diplomat and former United Nations representative for Afghanistan, died Monday in Nicosia at the age of 88, Cypriot media reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sevan, who studied at Columbia University in the United States, played an important role in the UN\u2019s efforts to address Afghanistan\u2019s political crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1988, he was appointed director and senior political adviser to the UN secretary-general\u2019s representative for Afghanistan. In 1990, he was tasked with overseeing the implementation of the Geneva Accords.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1991, Sevan was appointed general coordinator of the United Nations\u2019 humanitarian and economic assistance programs for Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: Benon Sevan, a Cypriot diplomat and former United Nations representative for Afghanistan, died Monday in Nicosia at the age of 88, Cypriot media reported. Sevan, who studied at Columbia University in the United States, played an important role in the UN\u2019s efforts to address Afghanistan\u2019s political crisis. In 1988, he was appointed director and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[85],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25724"}],"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=25724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25726,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25724\/revisions\/25726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}