{"id":54571,"date":"2015-03-02T14:38:27","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T14:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=7f4f9603e2e24380a8fcdb541d1d6fdf"},"modified":"2015-03-02T14:38:27","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T14:38:27","slug":"press-release-foreign-office-minister-hosts-bi-communal-cyprus-seminar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=54571","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Foreign Office Minister hosts bi-communal Cyprus seminar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Minister for Europe David Lidington today hosted a seminar highlighting the benefits of a Cyprus settlement, and the value of practical reconciliation initiatives in support of a settlement. <\/p>\n<p>The Minister commended the work of the Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Turkish Cypriot Chamber of Commerce in building cooperation and trust between communities in Cyprus. <\/p>\n<p>Minister for Europe Mr Lidington said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The UK remains among the strongest advocates of a Cyprus settlement.  So I was delighted to welcome the Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Turkish Cypriot Chamber of Commerce, and the Stelios Philanthropic Foundation to the FCO today.<\/p>\n<p>The Chambers\u2019 work demonstrates that business can play an important role in building trust and co-operation between the two communities and in highlighting how a settlement would bring economic benefits to all Cypriots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">They are part of a wider movement of grassroots initiatives on the island demonstrating that the two communities can achieve more together than they can apart, and complement the UN-led settlement talks.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<p>Follow Foreign Office Minister David Lidington on twitter <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DLidington\">@DLidington<\/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>Minister for Europe commends work of both Chambers of Commerce of Cyprus to build trust between communities.<\/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\/54571"}],"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=54571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}