{"id":53480,"date":"2015-02-05T16:25:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T16:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=0e746da0b6499bd1e170ca1d6547e57d"},"modified":"2015-02-05T16:25:25","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T16:25:25","slug":"press-release-foreign-office-minister-welcomes-new-tunisian-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=53480","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Foreign Office Minister welcomes new Tunisian government"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Minister for the Middle East Tobias Ellwood said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I send my congratulations to Tunisia\u2019s new Prime Minister Habib Essid and his government following the confirmation of their appointment today. This is an historic moment for Tunisia: it marks the conclusion of a process of political transition begun by the revolution four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>My congratulations also to outgoing Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa and his team for the vital role they played in steering the country through the final year of transition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The UK has been a strong supporter of Tunisia over the last four years. I am determined to strengthen the ties between our two countries, and I look forward to working with the new government as they seek to build a secure and prosperous society.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Follow Foreign Office Minister Tobias Ellwood on Twitter <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TobiasEllwoodMP\">@TobiasEllwoodMP<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Follow the Foreign Office on Twitter <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/foreignoffice\">@foreignoffice<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>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>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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>Minister for the Middle East Tobias Ellwood welcomes appointment of new Tunisian 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\/53480"}],"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=53480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}