{"id":60396,"date":"2015-08-14T19:14:49","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T19:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=4d4026c82f636ea3a9dc8d255fc8c137"},"modified":"2015-08-14T19:14:49","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T19:14:49","slug":"press-release-foreign-secretary-comments-on-japanese-prime-minister-abes-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=60396","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Foreign Secretary comments on Japanese Prime Minister Abe&#8217;s statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Speaking today, the Foreign Secretary said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI welcome Prime Minister Abe\u2019s statement on the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII.  I was pleased to read the reaffirmation of previous Japanese statements of apology and acknowledge Japan\u2019s commitment, over 70 years, to peaceful development and to the rules-based international system.  I welcome, as well, PM Abe\u2019s acknowledgment of the suffering of Japanese POWs, including many thousands of Britons. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope this statement will be received as a positive contribution to reconciliation between Japan and its neighbours in North East Asia\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond&#8217;s reaction to today&#8217;s statement from Japanese Prime Minister Abe<\/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\/60396"}],"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=60396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}