{"id":38503,"date":"2014-02-03T16:12:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T16:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=ac904be0ed9f1b4dd33bea8cedfcc6a2"},"modified":"2014-02-03T16:12:45","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T16:12:45","slug":"press-release-deputy-prime-minister-nick-clegg-meets-with-president-santos-in-colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=38503","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg meets with President Santos in Colombia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>At the meeting the Deputy Prime Minister reinforced the increasingly strong political dialogue between the UK and Colombia and discussed the growing economic relationship; in particular, the deepening science, innovation and education links between the UK and Colombia.<\/p>\n<p>The Deputy Prime Minister has also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/nick-clegg-brings-business-delegation-to-latin-america\">announced a new bilateral target and investment of \u00a34 billion by 2020<\/a>, having met the 2015 target of \u00a31.75 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Other issues discussed included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the peace process &#8211; The Deputy Prime Minister re-emphasised the UK\u2019s support to Colombia in the ongoing peace process as negotiations with the Revolutionary Forces of Colombia (FARC) continue<\/li>\n<li>human rights &#8211; President Santos\u2019s commitment to establishing a \u2018zero tolerance\u2019 approach to human rights abuses was welcomed by the Deputy Prime Minister; they discussed the need to focus on protecting human rights defenders throughout the process<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg met with President Juan Manuel Santos at the Presidential Palace in Colombia today as part of his record breaking trade visit to Latin America.<\/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\/38503"}],"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=38503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}