{"id":47908,"date":"2014-09-24T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T11:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=ba3663ab8addc0b22c5f27f7037463c2"},"modified":"2014-09-25T05:09:59","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T05:09:59","slug":"speech-speech-for-steppe-eagle-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=47908","title":{"rendered":"Speech: Opening of Steppe Eagle 2014 Military Exercise in Kazakhstan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Updated:<\/em> Added translation<\/p>\n<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Colonel General, Major General, Brigadier General, distinguished guests,<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m delighted to be here today for the start of this year\u2019s \u201cSteppe Eagle\u201d Exercise.  <\/p>\n<p>The United Kingdom has taken part in Exercise Steppe Eagle from the very beginning in 2003. Twelve years later, <abbr title=\"Kazakh Brigade\">KAZBRIG<\/abbr> are deploying for the first time outside Kazakhstan. Warm congratulations to everyone involved. That is a landmark achievement. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m delighted that experts from the \u201cFirst Battalion the Rifles\u201d will be working with you for this year\u2019s Exercise. This continues their recent and close cooperation with the Kazakh Armed Forces.   <\/p>\n<p>The United Kingdom is proud to work with you as you prepare to take part in a United Nations peace keeping operation. Achieving that aim would be another milestone in the development of an independent and influential Kazakhstan. It would allow Kazakhstan to contribute towards international peace and security. The British Government therefore highly appreciates the commitment of the officers and soldiers of <abbr title=\"Kazakh Brigade\">KAZBRIG<\/abbr>. <\/p>\n<p>Best wishes for a successful Exercise Steppe Eagle 2014!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speech given by Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador on 24 September. This is an English transcript of the speech, exactly as it was delivered<\/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\/47908"}],"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=47908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47941,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47908\/revisions\/47941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}