{"id":55140,"date":"2015-03-12T17:19:42","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T17:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=7b6f18db0f9d427579983a0d418631d4"},"modified":"2015-03-12T17:19:42","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T17:19:42","slug":"news-story-minister-for-europe-meets-cyprus-foreign-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=55140","title":{"rendered":"News story: Minister for Europe meets Cyprus Foreign Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Minister for Europe David Lidington and the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Cyprus Ioannis Kasoulides met in London today.  <\/p>\n<p>Mr Lidington said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was delighted to welcome the Republic of Cyprus\u2019 Foreign Minister, Ioannis Kasoulides, to the Foreign Office today.  Our discussions reaffirmed the strength of the UK\u2019s partnership with the Republic of Cyprus.  It is clear that we are enhancing our already close co-operation across a range of critically important areas.  We are working closely together within the Coalition to tackle the scourge of ISIS.  Our defence relationship has never been stronger.  And the UK is working with the Republic of Cyprus on a range of other crucial issues, including finance and public sector reform.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe both remain committed to reuniting Cyprus through a sustainable settlement consistent with UN resolutions. I hope that substantive settlement talks will resume soon. So I look forward to continuing to work closely with the Republic of Cyprus on issues that matter to both of us, and forging an even deeper and broader partnership.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Follow Foreign Office Minister David Lidington on Twitter <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DLidington\">@DLidington<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Follow the Foreign Office on Twitter <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/foreignoffice\">@foreignoffice<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\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<\/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 Europe David Lidington welcomes the strength of the UK-Cyprus partnership<\/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\/55140"}],"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=55140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}