{"id":5489,"date":"2026-01-25T16:45:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T16:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/01\/25\/uzbekistan-afghanistan-stability-central-asia-security\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T16:45:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T16:45:21","slug":"uzbekistan-afghanistan-stability-central-asia-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/01\/25\/uzbekistan-afghanistan-stability-central-asia-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Uzbekistan: Regional Security Depends on Stability in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An advisor to the President of Uzbekistan has warned that stability in Afghanistan plays a key role in the security of Central Asia and the wider region. He emphasized that any expansion of extremism could have direct security consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Abdulaziz Kamalov stated that developments in the Middle East, particularly the movement and influence of extremist groups, pose a serious threat to countries in the region, with Afghanistan being especially vulnerable to these trends.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kamalov, shared security concerns have led Tashkent to support international peace initiatives, including those backed by the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The Uzbek official stressed that Afghanistan&#8217;s security is inextricably linked to regional stability, a reality that highlights the Taliban administration&#8217;s responsibility to ensure nationwide security, prevent the activities of extremist groups, and respond to regional concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uzbekistan warns that Afghanistan&#8217;s stability is crucial for Central Asian security and supports international peace efforts including US-backed initiatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5489","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=5489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}