{"id":59723,"date":"2015-07-29T08:09:34","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T08:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=db72b291714f3c570f63fe10713ea9ea"},"modified":"2015-07-29T08:09:34","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T08:09:34","slug":"press-release-mongolia-25-years-of-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=59723","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Mongolia &#8211; 25 years of democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Minister Swire said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Today Mongolia marks 25 years since its first democratic, free election. Mongolia\u2019s successful and peaceful transition from communism to a parliamentary democracy is an example that many can learn from.<br \/>\nSo too is the unwavering commitment to democracy shown by the people and politicians of Mongolia, many of whom were personally engaged in their country\u2019s struggle for democracy 25 years ago.<br \/>\nThe United Kingdom was the first Western democracy to recognise Mongolia\u2019s independence 52 years ago, and we are proud of our strong links.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Mongolia continues to make a significant contribution to strengthening globally shared values: through its engagement with international groups such as ASEM, and positive global action \u2013 such as its highly respected contribution to peacekeeping missions \u2013 Mongolia sets a strong example to the region and the world\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Office Minister Hugo Swire congratulates Mongolia on its 25th anniversary of democracy<\/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\/59723"}],"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=59723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}