{"id":23872,"date":"2026-10-13T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/13\/eu-envoy-kabul-taliban-security-drugs-talks\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T12:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T12:00:19","slug":"eu-envoy-kabul-taliban-security-drugs-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/13\/eu-envoy-kabul-taliban-security-drugs-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Special Envoy in Kabul Holds Talks with Taliban on Security, Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban\u2019s Foreign Ministry said Thomas Frilsson, the European Union\u2019s special representative for Afghanistan, held talks in Kabul with Amir Khan Muttaqi, the acting foreign minister of the administration, on security, counter-narcotics, humanitarian affairs and political issues.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ministry, Muttaqi criticised what he described as the international community\u2019s failure to provide assistance to curb drug trafficking. He called for support for alternative livelihoods for farmers and other measures to preserve what the Taliban administration calls Afghanistan\u2019s achievements in curbing narcotics.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban Foreign Ministry quoted Frilsson as saying that the European Union\u2019s official position is to support strengthening security and counter-narcotics efforts in Afghanistan. The ministry added that the EU special envoy had pledged cooperation in various sectors.<\/p>\n<p>This was Frilsson\u2019s first visit to Kabul since being appointed the European Union\u2019s special representative for Afghanistan. He also met a day earlier with Sirajuddin Haqqani, the acting interior minister of the Taliban administration.<\/p>\n<p>Frilsson succeeded French diplomat Gilles Bertrand, whose mission ended in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EU envoy Thomas Frilsson met Taliban officials in Kabul to discuss security, drugs, humanitarian issues and political matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23872","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=23872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}