{"id":62701,"date":"2015-10-09T16:55:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T16:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=9518d5bfbc8af72c56e65d0c68a98f5f"},"modified":"2015-10-09T16:55:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T16:55:03","slug":"press-release-david-cameron-holds-talks-with-estonian-prime-minister-roivas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=62701","title":{"rendered":"Press release: David Cameron holds talks with Estonian Prime Minister R\u00f5ivas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>A Downing Street spokesperson said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Prime Minister welcomed Prime Minister Taavi R\u00f5ivas of Estonia to Downing Street this morning for bilateral talks. Prime Minister R\u00f5ivas thanked the Prime Minister for the UK\u2019s recent announcement to send regular deployments of troops to the Baltics for training with NATO partners.<\/p>\n<p>He also welcomed the UK\u2019s commitment to spend 2% of GDP on defence \u2013 a commitment Estonia has also made. Discussing Russia and the situation in Ukraine, both Prime Ministers agreed on the need for sanctions to remain until the Minsk agreements have been implemented in full.<\/p>\n<p>On the migration crisis, they discussed the need for more to be done to support Syrian refugees in Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon as part of the comprehensive approach.  The Prime Minister then updated Prime Minister R\u00f5ivas on the UK\u2019s EU renegotiation. The Estonian Prime Minister reiterated his wish to see the UK remain in the EU and agreed on the need for reforms in order for the EU to be more competitive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Finally, the Prime Minister congratulated Prime Minister R\u00f5ivas on taking over chairmanship of the Digital Five which will see Estonia chair the group of 5 nations \u2013 which includes the UK \u2013 that have the strongest government digital agendas.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister met Taavi R\u00f5ivas at 10 Downing Street today: they discussed the Ukraine situation and the plight of Syrian refugees.<\/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\/62701"}],"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=62701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}