{"id":71979,"date":"2016-07-05T13:31:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T13:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=3d31d251aa3c0f27a99807eab9b98b4a"},"modified":"2016-07-05T13:31:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T13:31:00","slug":"news-story-minister-for-the-middle-east-statement-on-settlements-in-the-west-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=71979","title":{"rendered":"News story: Minister for the Middle East statement on settlements in the West Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Foreign Office Minister, Tobias Ellwood, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I am deeply concerned by the announcement of new settlement units in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Settlements are illegal under international law.  As noted in the report issued by the Middle East Quartet on 1 July, steps like this also make a two state solution more difficult to achieve.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Follow Foreign Office Minister Tobias Ellwood on Twitter @Tobias_Ellwood<\/li>\n<li>Follow the Foreign Office on Twitter @foreignoffice<\/li>\n<li>Follow the Foreign Office on Facebook and Google+<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"media-enquiries\">Media enquiries<\/h2>\n<p>Email newsdesk@fco.gov.uk<\/p>\n<p>News Desk 020 7008 3100<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister for the Middle East, Tobias Ellwood, concerned by the announcement of new settlement units in the West Bank.<\/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\/71979"}],"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=71979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}