{"id":13963,"date":"2026-05-30T11:45:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T11:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/30\/taliban-prime-minister-expands-relations-turkmenistan\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T11:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T11:45:19","slug":"taliban-prime-minister-expands-relations-turkmenistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/30\/taliban-prime-minister-expands-relations-turkmenistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Prime Minister Emphasizes Expanding Relations with Turkmenistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mohammad Hassan Akhund, the Prime Minister of the Taliban administration, has announced that Kabul seeks to expand relations with Turkmenistan in political, trade, transit, cultural, and other sectors. He emphasized the development of comprehensive cooperation between the two countries and described Ashgabat as one of Afghanistan&#8217;s important regional partners.<\/p>\n<p>These remarks come as the Taliban administration has yet to be recognized as the legitimate government of Afghanistan by international organizations. The lack of official global legitimacy has created significant political and economic challenges for the Taliban administration.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, some neighboring countries, including Iran, while maintaining engagement with Kabul, have stressed the necessity of forming an inclusive government with the participation of all ethnic groups and religious sects of Afghanistan. This demand remains one of the main prerequisites of the international community for normalizing official relations with the Taliban administration.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban administration seeks to strengthen regional relations amid serious economic pressures in Afghanistan. International isolation, financial restrictions, and the large-scale return of Afghan migrants from various countries have increasingly complicated the living conditions of the residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban Prime Minister Mohammad Hassan Akhund stresses boosting comprehensive ties with Turkmenistan amid Afghanistan&#8217;s economic and political challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}