{"id":13842,"date":"2013-06-03T15:51:52","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T15:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=f8d8151471a903fa42ddaf772bf465e0"},"modified":"2013-06-03T15:51:52","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T15:51:52","slug":"press-release-foreign-secretary-speaks-to-new-palestinian-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=13842","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Foreign Secretary speaks to new Palestinian Prime Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Speaking after the call, the Foreign Secretary said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI spoke to Professor Rami Hamdallah today to congratulate him on his appointment as the new Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority. His appointment comes at a crucial time in the search for Middle East peace. There is an urgent need to return to negotiations for a two-state solution. The UK wants to see a viable, independent Palestinian state, based on 1967 borders with agreed land swaps, living in peace and security with Israel \u2013 with Jerusalem as a shared capital of both states and a just, fair and agreed settlement for refugees. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI assured Prime Minister Hamdallah of the UK\u2019s strong support for efforts to restart the peace process and our commitment to a two state solution.  I welcomed his determination to build and maintain the institutions and economic underpinnings of the future Palestinian state, under the leadership of President Abbas. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI pay tribute to the outstanding contribution to Palestinian state-building of outgoing Prime Minister Dr Salam Fayyad, and I look forward to working closely with Prime Minister Hamdallah as he continues these efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<p>Follow the Foreign Secretary on twitter <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WilliamJHague\">@WilliamJHague<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow the Foreign Office on twitter <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/foreignoffice\">@foreignoffice<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow the Foreign Office on <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/foreignoffice?ref=hl\">facebook<\/a> and <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/b\/105922144104190309938\/+foreignoffice\/posts\">Google+<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/foreign-commonwealth-office.atom\">announcements feed<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/email-signup?organisation=foreign-commonwealth-office\">email alerts<\/a> to get our latest news and announcements<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Secretary William Hague today spoke to Professor Rami Hamdallah who has been appointed Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13941,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13842\/revisions\/13941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}