{"id":50213,"date":"2014-11-13T17:45:34","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T17:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=f3c93602d7049b22a0ebd9de26792052"},"modified":"2014-11-13T17:45:34","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T17:45:34","slug":"press-release-significant-increase-in-pace-of-party-engagement-says-villiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=50213","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Significant increase in pace of party engagement says Villiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>At the conclusion of  two days of intensified meetings at Stormont House, the Secretary of State, Rt Hon Theresa Villiers MP said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I welcome the significant increase in the degree and pace of engagement by all talks participants this week,  with the parties maintaining a presence in Stormont House throughout Wednesday and Thursday.   There has been a positive approach by all in trying to find an agreed way forward on some difficult issues, and I very much hope that this will continue.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">It is also encouraging that in addition to government meetings, the parties have taken advantage of their shared location to have a large number of bilateral contacts.  This is to be welcomed.  It is important to maintain this approach next week, and I would encourage the parties to continue to meet on a regular basis over the coming days.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Discussions will resume again early next week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State is encouraged by increase and pace of engagement by NI Political Parties at this week&#8217;s talks<\/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\/50213"}],"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=50213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}