{"id":63171,"date":"2015-10-22T22:22:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T22:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=92d826baea0759b583629c9a45afd00e"},"modified":"2015-10-22T22:22:51","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T22:22:51","slug":"press-release-prime-minister-and-chinese-president-hold-bilateral-talks-at-chequers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=63171","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Prime Minister and Chinese President hold bilateral talks at Chequers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<ul>\n<li>Prime Minister and President held talks at Chequers on domestic priorities and foreign policy issues<\/li>\n<li>key foreign policy discussion topics included ISIL, Ukraine and regional security in Asia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Continuing their discussions of yesterday on domestic and international priorities and how to cooperate on these, the Prime Minister and the Chinese President held bilateral talks today at Chequers.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister said: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The UK and China have a clear shared interest in global peace, stability, and prosperity. We agreed on the importance of strong international institutions in a rules-based system, and on the primacy of clear and open channels of communication between our 2 countries in a 21st century global partnership.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Prime Minister and President agreed the UK and China should continue their close cooperation on a range of issues, intensifying work together to address international security concerns for the benefit of the 2 countries and the wider world. The Prime Minister cited the Iranian nuclear deal as one example of where the UK and China working together can bring about real results.<\/p>\n<p>They discussed the importance of finding a solution to the Syrian conflict, agreeing the international community must come together more effectively to tackle the evil of ISIL. <\/p>\n<p>On Ukraine, the Prime Minister and President both encouraged progress in implementing the Minsk accord. <\/p>\n<p>They discussed a range of regional security issues, including the importance of the South China Sea. On the Korean peninsula, they agreed the vital need to avoid instability. <\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister and President agreed early and open dialogue between the UK and China could bring about opportunities for important diplomatic solutions on a range of global and regional security challenges. <\/p>\n<p>They agreed to move forward with a joint statement of understanding on how the UK and China could work more closely together in these important fields.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Cameron and President Xi held talks at Chequers during the China State Visit on topics including ISIL, Ukraine and security in Asia.<\/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\/63171"}],"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=63171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}