{"id":23378,"date":"2026-10-06T16:06:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T16:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/06\/taliban-russia-economic-cooperation-trade-energy\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T16:06:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T16:06:17","slug":"taliban-russia-economic-cooperation-trade-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/06\/taliban-russia-economic-cooperation-trade-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Acting Foreign Minister Seeks Expanded Economic Ties With Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The acting foreign minister of the Taliban administration says he discussed expanding economic, trade, transit and energy cooperation during a meeting with Russian officials, and called for turning the \u201cpolitical understanding\u201d between the two sides into a practical economic partnership.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the aim of these consultations is to move existing relations beyond the political level and achieve more tangible results in the areas of economics and trade.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as, in the absence of a clear and assessable roadmap for such talks \u2014 including commitments, timelines and an implementation mechanism \u2014 the immediate impact on improving livelihoods and people\u2019s access to job opportunities and economic services remains unclear.<\/p>\n<p>Russia is considered one of the influential countries in the region, and Kabul\u2019s economic talks with Moscow are usually centred on trade, transit routes and energy cooperation; however, details of any possible agreements have not been announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban officials seek to deepen economic, trade, transit and energy cooperation with Russia, but details remain unclear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23378","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\/23378","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=23378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}