{"id":16322,"date":"2013-06-14T10:23:40","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T10:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=4341c97149cfccae26ff1eabf9d4dbc9"},"modified":"2013-06-14T10:23:40","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T10:23:40","slug":"news-story-hugo-swire-welcomes-election-date-for-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=16322","title":{"rendered":"News story: Hugo Swire welcomes election date for Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Hugo Swire said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI welcome the announcement made by the Interim Election Council (IEC) in Nepal to hold elections in November 2013.  This is a positive step forward for the government and people of Nepal. I commend the efforts of the IEC and Election Commission so far in ensuring preparations for free, credible, democratic and inclusive elections. As a longstanding friend of Nepal, the UK will support in any way we can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nepal\u2019s Interim Electoral Council (IEC) took office in mid-March after a prolonged period of stalemate following the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly (CA) in May 2012. Since the IEC took office, the UK has stressed the importance of setting a date for elections. The UK is planning to support domestic, regional and international observers, responsible media reporting on elections and a programme to increase the number of women CA members elected. Once a Constituent Assembly is voted in, the final stage will be to agree a constitution which allows for a more inclusive and federal state in Nepal.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/world\/nepal\" title=\"UK and Nepal\">UK and Nepal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow Hugo Swire on Twitter <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HugoSwire\" title=\"@HugoSwire\">@HugoSwire<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow the Foreign Office on Twitter <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/foreignoffice\" title=\"@foreignoffice\">@foreignoffice<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow the Foreign Office on <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/foreignoffice?ref=hl\" title=\"Foreign Office on Facebook\">Facebook<\/a> and <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/b\/105922144104190309938\/+foreignoffice\/posts\" title=\"Foreign Office on Google+\">Google+<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/foreign-commonwealth-office.atom\" title=\"Subscribe to announcements feed\">announcements feed<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/email-signup?organisation=foreign-commonwealth-office\" title=\"Subscribe to email alerts\">email alerts<\/a> to get our latest news and announcements<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Office Minister for South Asia Hugo Swire has welcomed the announcement of a date for elections in Nepal.<\/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\/16322"}],"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=16322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}