{"id":51528,"date":"2014-12-11T17:35:39","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T17:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=06e88d1c0a565158ba2f9613c95ceb11"},"modified":"2014-12-11T17:35:39","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T17:35:39","slug":"news-story-defence-secretary-meets-with-german-counterpart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=51528","title":{"rendered":"News story: Defence Secretary meets with German counterpart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Their talks focused on how to best implement the measures agreed at the 2014 <abbr title=\"North Atlantic Treaty Organization\">NATO<\/abbr> Summit in Wales, the situation in Ukraine, the future of Afghanistan and the threat posed by <abbr title=\"Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant\">ISIL<\/abbr>. <\/p>\n<p>Before the talks Dr von der Leyen inspected a Guard of Honour on Horse Guards Parade.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Fallon met Dr von der Leyen in August in Berlin shortly after he was appointed Defence Secretary and again during the <abbr title=\"North Atlantic Treaty Organization\">NATO<\/abbr> Summit in Newport in September. <\/p>\n<p>The UK and Germany have a longstanding and close defence relationship, working closely together within <abbr title=\"North Atlantic Treaty Organization\">NATO<\/abbr>. <\/p>\n<p>The Ministers agreed that the UK and Germany should continue to develop and deepen their defence cooperation.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image embedded\">\n<div class=\"img\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dr Ursula von der Leyen inspects the Guard of Honour \" src=\"https:\/\/assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/image_data\/file\/34414\/ddc-14-341-001g.jpg\"><\/div><figcaption>Dr Ursula von der Leyen inspects the Guard of Honour [Picture: Harland Quarrington, Crown copyright]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In this 100th anniversary of the Great War it is important to recognise the strong co-operation between us as partners in pursuit of peace.<\/p>\n<p>Whether contributing to security operations in Afghanistan or the international response to the <abbr title=\"Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant\">ISIL<\/abbr> threat, Britain and Germany enjoy a successful and enduring defence relationship.<\/p>\n<p>It is vital that like-minded countries such as ours address the varied common security challenges that we face.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Meeting with Dr von der Leyen has enabled us to affirm our mutual commitment to meeting these challenges.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>German Defence Minister Dr Ursula von der Leyen said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>For decades, the presence of British Forces in Germany has been a sign of our joint successful efforts to promote peace and freedom in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>During those years, numerous ties of friendship have developed. Subsequently today we stand united to face the various global challenges and dangers to stability, peace and humanity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Today\u2019s visit underlines our cohesion and serves the purpose of close information exchange on recent developments to continuously advance our longstanding and pragmatic cooperation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has met with his German counterpart Dr Ursula von der Leyen to discuss shared European security challenges.<\/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\/51528"}],"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=51528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}