{"id":46272,"date":"2014-08-11T14:49:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T14:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=78696fdec26b3ef6a470afe3e233b9f7"},"modified":"2014-08-11T14:49:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T14:49:00","slug":"press-release-foreign-secretary-welcomes-announcement-of-iraqi-pm-designate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=46272","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Foreign Secretary welcomes announcement of Iraqi PM Designate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>On hearing the news of the announcement the Foreign Secretary said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I welcome the announcement today by Iraq\u2019s President, Dr Fouad Massoum, that Dr Haider Al-Abadi has been nominated as Prime Minister Designate.  I commend the efforts of President Massoum in carrying out his constitutional duties.  It is now vital that a new and fully inclusive government be formed quickly in order to respond to the crisis in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>We will continue to support the people of Iraq, and the UK is working with international partners to deliver humanitarian assistance to those in need across Iraq.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The UK is clear that efforts to ensure the protection of civilians and urgently alleviate the humanitarian situation must ultimately be led by Iraq\u2019s leaders.  I therefore call on Iraq\u2019s political leaders to work with the Prime Minister Designate to swiftly form a new Council of Ministers that is representative of all the peoples of Iraq and that can promote national unity and deliver security.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\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\">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 welcomes Dr Haider Al-Abadi\u2019s nomination as Iraqi PM designate and calls for quick formation of inclusive government.<\/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\/46272"}],"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=46272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}