{"id":60988,"date":"2015-09-03T16:58:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T16:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=37432178044d1d6b33db1b7bbc0f2e14"},"modified":"2015-09-03T16:58:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T16:58:00","slug":"press-release-villiers-need-for-urgent-focused-and-intensive-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=60988","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Villiers &#8211; need for urgent, focused and intensive talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Ms Villiers commented:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The discussions I have held with the Northern Ireland parties and the Irish Government over recent days have confirmed how serious the situation now is at Stormont.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">For months, the implementation of the Stormont House Agreement has been stalled as a result of the impasse over the Executive\u2019s budget and welfare reform.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The fallout from the recent murders in Belfast has once again highlighted the need to see all paramilitary organisations in Northern Ireland disband once and for all.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The Prime Minister and I, along with the Irish Government, agree that there is a need for urgent, focused and intensive talks.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">A failure to resolve the issues under discussion would raise serious questions about the sustainability of the devolved institutions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I would expect each of the parties to give these talks their highest priority as we seek to find a way forward \u2013 to implement in full the Stormont House Agreement and to look at ways of dealing with the scourge of paramilitarism, from wherever it might come.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a statement by the Prime Minister earlier this afternoon, the Secretary of State confirms urgent intensive talks will commence<\/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\/60988"}],"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=60988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}