{"id":45542,"date":"2014-07-23T22:04:17","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T22:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=35c9509811c385564b2a7f4c24c94694"},"modified":"2014-07-23T22:04:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T22:04:17","slug":"press-release-foreign-secretary-gaza-human-rights-resolution-will-not-aid-peace-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=45542","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Foreign Secretary: Gaza Human Rights resolution will not aid peace process"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Commenting on the resolution on Gaza adopted today by the UN Human Rights Council, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The UK is deeply concerned by the continuing bloodshed in Gaza.  It is tragic that so many innocent civilians, including women and children, have been killed and injured.  The urgent priority is to stop the bloodshed, restore a ceasefire and work for a longer term solution.  All our efforts will be concentrated on that objective.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Today\u2019s UN Human Rights Council resolution will not help achieve a lasting ceasefire.  It is fundamentally unbalanced and will complicate the process by introducing unnecessary new mechanisms.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The UK could not support this resolution, but recognising the strength of feeling about the loss of life and the desire by a large number of members of the Council to express that feeling in a resolution, the UK joined other EU nations in abstaining in the vote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">We will continue to urge Israel to exercise restraint, make every effort to avoid civilian casualties and work for an immediate ceasefire, while recognising its right to defend itself against these attacks.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<p>Follow the Foreign Office on <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/foreignoffice\" title=\"FCO on Twitter\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the Foreign Office on <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/foreignoffice\" title=\"FCO on Facebook\">Facebook<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/plus.google.com\/+foreignoffice\/posts%22FCO%20on%20Google+%22\">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\">News Desk <\/span><br \/>\n              020 7008 3100\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Hammond says UN Human Rights Council resolution will not help achieve ceasefire and is fundamentally unbalanced.<\/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\/45542"}],"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=45542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}