{"id":5303,"date":"2026-01-14T18:06:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/01\/14\/un-political-adviser-visit-afghanistan-taliban-cooperation\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T18:06:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:06:25","slug":"un-political-adviser-visit-afghanistan-taliban-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/01\/14\/un-political-adviser-visit-afghanistan-taliban-cooperation\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Deputy Secretary-General&#8217;s Political Adviser to Visit Afghanistan Amid Taliban Talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Georgette Gagnon, Acting Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), announced that Rosemary DiCarlo, the Political Adviser to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, will travel to Afghanistan at the end of this month.<\/p>\n<p>She discussed this with Amir Khan Muttaqi, the Taliban&#8217;s Foreign Minister.<\/p>\n<p>Gagnon has requested the Taliban\u2019s cooperation regarding the Political Adviser\u2019s visit to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban Foreign Ministry added that both sides also discussed the outcomes of the Doha working group meetings.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban emphasized that the results of these groups&#8217; work in Doha were positive; however, they criticized the UN for failing to provide alternative livelihoods to poppy cultivation and for ongoing banking issues.<\/p>\n<p>Gagnon promised to cooperate with the Taliban to address banking challenges and to support alternative livelihoods to poppy cultivation.<\/p>\n<p>The Political Adviser\u2019s visit to Afghanistan comes at a time when no country has officially recognized the Taliban, and UN efforts to integrate the group into the international community have yet to yield significant results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN Political Adviser Rosemary DiCarlo to visit Afghanistan, discussing cooperation with the Taliban amid challenges in banking and alternative livelihoods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303","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=5303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}