{"id":1831,"date":"2009-08-17T19:00:43","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T19:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=1831"},"modified":"2009-08-17T19:00:43","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T19:00:43","slug":"medvedev-backs-rail-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/medvedev-backs-rail-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Medvedev backs rail projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/asiaCrisis\/idUSLU605679\">A Reuters report<\/a> saying Russia&#8217;s President Medvedev backs Afghan railway projects.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Russia aims to spur Afghan region economy, win aid<\/h3>\n<p>By Roman Kozhevnikov and Anastasia Onegina<\/p>\n<p>DUSHANBE, July 30 (Reuters) &#8211; Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday brought together the leaders of Afghanistan, Pakistan and their neighbour Tajikistan to try and spur regional economic recovery and attract huge aid flows.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8220;We have a common space, which should be filled with all sorts of projects,&#8221; Medvedev said in the Tajik capital after meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were talking about energy projects, <strong>railway projects<\/strong>,&#8221; he told a news conference after talks also attended by Tajik President Imomali Rakhmon.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<cite>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/asiaCrisis\/idUSLU605679\">Reuters<\/a> 2009-07-30<\/cite>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Reuters report saying Russia&#8217;s President Medvedev backs Afghan railway projects. Russia aims to spur Afghan region economy, win aid By Roman Kozhevnikov and Anastasia Onegina DUSHANBE, July 30 (Reuters) &#8211; Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday brought together the leaders of Afghanistan, Pakistan and their neighbour Tajikistan to try and spur regional economic recovery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[134,153,165],"class_list":["post-1831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","category-projects","tag-pakistan","tag-russia","tag-tajikistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}