{"id":48066,"date":"2014-09-26T18:10:53","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T18:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=2f4a6d3902267b9952c27d9a7ed47d4f"},"modified":"2014-09-26T18:10:53","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T18:10:53","slug":"press-release-foreign-office-minister-comments-on-fijis-return-to-commonwealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=48066","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Foreign Office Minister comments on Fiji\u2019s return to Commonwealth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Minister for Asia-Pacific, Rt Hon Hugo Swire MP said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The decision by the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group to welcome Fiji back into the Commonwealth family recognises the significant steps that Fiji has taken on the road to full democracy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">As an organisation, the Commonwealth is based on strong shared values. Fiji\u2019s recent elections were a vitally important milestone which we have welcomed. I now encourage Fiji to work with the Commonwealth and its members to embed further the aims and aspirations we have all agreed in the Commonwealth Charter, including crucially the freedom of the press.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<p>Read <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/thecommonwealth.org\/media\/press-release\/fiji-rejoins-commonwealth-full-member\">further information on the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group\u2019s (CMAG\u2019s) decision<\/a> on the Commonwealth Secretariat website.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Foreign Office Minister Hugo Swire on twitter <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HugoSwire\">@HugoSwire<\/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\">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>On 26 September 2014, the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) agreed to lift Fiji\u2019s partial suspension from the Commonwealth following their successful elections on 17 September.<\/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\/48066"}],"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=48066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}