{"id":5857,"date":"2026-02-02T05:35:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T05:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/02\/02\/afghanistan-ready-resume-cooperation-shanghai-cooperation-organization\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T05:35:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T05:35:21","slug":"afghanistan-ready-resume-cooperation-shanghai-cooperation-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/02\/02\/afghanistan-ready-resume-cooperation-shanghai-cooperation-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Representative Signals Afghanistan\u2019s Readiness to Resume Cooperation with Shanghai Cooperation Organization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Taliban administration representative in Russia has announced that Afghanistan, as an observer country in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), is ready to resume its cooperation with this regional body.<\/p>\n<p>Gul Hassan, in an interview with TASS news agency, expressed hope that Afghan representatives would participate in upcoming SCO meetings and play a more active role within the organization.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, following efforts by Moscow and Beijing, most member states of the SCO have concluded that reinstating Afghanistan\u2019s active participation in the organization&#8217;s working processes is feasible.<\/p>\n<p>The Shanghai Cooperation Organization is a regional entity focused on security, political, and economic cooperation. Afghanistan has participated as an observer in some of its programs in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan\u2019s Taliban administration is ready to resume cooperation with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization as an observer, aiming for a more active role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5857","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\/5857","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=5857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}