{"id":63957,"date":"2015-11-10T17:15:58","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T17:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=85d0f85683872923dc2d426bae571c89"},"modified":"2015-11-10T17:15:58","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T17:15:58","slug":"press-release-foreign-secretary-welcomes-burmas-peaceful-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=63957","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Foreign Secretary welcomes Burma\u2019s peaceful elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I congratulate the people of Burma on the calm and orderly manner in which elections took place on 8 November. We hope this will prove a significant landmark in Burma\u2019s transition to democracy, and helps fulfil a long-held aspiration by the people of Burma to choose freely who represents them in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>We welcome initial reports from international observers, including the EU, that despite some flaws the polling process was good. We will continue to watch the counting process closely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">When the results are clear, we hope all sides will approach the transition to a new government in a spirit of dialogue. The UK will continue to support the people of Burma in their aspiration for a democratic and accountable government.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<p>Follow the Foreign Secretary on twitter <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PHammondMP\">@PHammondMP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow the Foreign Office on twitter <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/foreignoffice\">@foreignoffice<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow the Foreign Office on <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/foreignoffice?ref=hl\">facebook<\/a> and <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/b\/105922144104190309938\/+foreignoffice\/posts\">Google+<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"contact \" id=\"contact_193\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Media enquiries<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"email\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Email<\/span><br \/>\n              <a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:newsdesk@fco.gov.uk\">newsdesk@fco.gov.uk<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">News Desk <\/span><br \/>\n              020 7008 3100\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Foreign Secretary congratulates the people of Burma on peaceful elections, and looks forward to the official result.<\/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\/63957"}],"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=63957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}