{"id":20084,"date":"2026-08-22T10:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T10:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/22\/washington-meeting-afghanistan-private-sector-support\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T10:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T10:30:17","slug":"washington-meeting-afghanistan-private-sector-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/22\/washington-meeting-afghanistan-private-sector-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington meeting focuses on support for Afghanistan&#8217;s private sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Haji Obaidullah Sadiqkhil, head of the Afghanistan Trade Council in the United Arab Emirates, has met with Jeff Greico, president of the Afghanistan-U.S. Chamber of Commerce, in Washington to discuss the development of Afghanistan&#8217;s private sector and future plans.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement from the Afghanistan Trade Council in the United Arab Emirates, the two sides also reviewed ways to strengthen cooperation and methods of supporting Afghanistan&#8217;s business community.<\/p>\n<p>The statement did not provide further details on the programmes discussed, when they would be implemented, or any specific agreement between the two sides.<\/p>\n<p>The Afghanistan Trade Council in the UAE and the Afghanistan-U.S. Chamber of Commerce are among the institutions working to connect Afghan traders with regional and international markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan business leaders meet in Washington to discuss support for the private sector, future plans and trade cooperation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-important-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20084","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=20084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}