{"id":67627,"date":"2016-02-15T15:56:28","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T15:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=75f1d1e5a0992389f3c9b53f9b832940"},"modified":"2016-02-15T15:56:28","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T15:56:28","slug":"press-release-secretary-of-state-commences-visit-to-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=67627","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Secretary of State commences visit to the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Ms Villiers will use her visit to update members of the US Administration and senior figures within the Irish American community on the Fresh Start Agreement reached in November 2015.<\/p>\n<p>She will highlight the significant progress made since November in putting the Northern Ireland institutions on a more stable and sustainable footing, and towards building a brighter, more secure future for Northern Ireland. <\/p>\n<p>\u200e The Secretary of State said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I welcome the opportunity to brief members of the US Administration who continue to support our efforts to move forward the political process in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Both the Stormont House Agreement and Fresh Start Agreement are significant achievements yet despite good progress on implementation, challenges remain, \u200enot least finding a way to address the legacy of Northern Ireland\u2019s past.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The Government remains fully committed to establishing the new bodies to deal with the past set out in the Stormont House Agreement and I  am currently engaged in discussions with the political parties and victims\u2019 groups to overcome the remaining obstacles.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">In addition I look forward to promoting NI as an important investment location for the United States. I also plan to discuss with US experts methods of tackling organised crime which forms such a key part of the Fresh Start Agreement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Rt Hon Theresa Villiers MP, will tomorrow undertake an intensive 2 day programme to New York and Washington DC<\/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\/67627"}],"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=67627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}