{"id":37832,"date":"2014-01-16T14:28:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T14:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=a99fd3635ee05ff1e647834ab34a55e2"},"modified":"2014-01-16T14:28:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T14:28:00","slug":"press-release-minister-welcomes-start-of-the-first-trial-at-the-special-tribunal-for-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=37832","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Minister welcomes start of the first trial at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Commenting on today\u2019s launch of the Special Tribunal into the death of former Lebanese PM Hariri, Foreign Office Minister, Hugh Robertson, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I welcome the beginning of this important trial. I hope it will help achieve justice for the families of Rafik Hariri, the other victims and for the Lebanese people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The UK strongly supports the work of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. I was pleased to announce an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/speeches\/uk-support-to-the-special-tribunal-for-lebanon\">additional \u00a31million of UK funding<\/a> in December, bringing our total contribution to \u00a35.5million since 2009. I was also pleased to see Lebanon fulfil its obligation by making its annual financial contribution to the Tribunal. We continue to call for the arrest of those indicted by the Tribunal. The UK stands firmly behind Lebanese and international efforts to end the culture of impunity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<p>Find out more about <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stl-tsl.org\/\">the Special Tribunal for Lebanon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow Foreign Office Minister Hugh Robertson on twitter <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HughRobertsonMP\">@HughRobertsonMP<\/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<div class=\"contact\" id=\"contact_193\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Media enquiries<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"email\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Email<\/span><br \/>\n              <a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:newsdesk@fco.gov.uk\">newsdesk@fco.gov.uk<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Telephone<\/span><br \/>\n              020 7008 3100\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Photo: Used under flickr <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stlebanon\/6302047573\/in\/photostream\/\">creative comms license<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister for the Middle East Hugh Robertson supports work of Lebanon\u2019s Special Tribunal.<\/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\/37832"}],"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=37832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37840,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37832\/revisions\/37840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}