{"id":74781,"date":"2016-10-06T14:47:13","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T14:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=1566da3874a9b048e10f3afeb66979d9"},"modified":"2016-10-06T14:47:13","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T14:47:13","slug":"press-release-foreign-secretary-welcomes-the-next-united-nations-secretary-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=74781","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Foreign Secretary welcomes the next United Nations Secretary-General"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The United Nations Security Council has formally recommended Ant\u00f3nio Guterres to the UN General Assembly as its next Secretary-General. He is an outstanding candidate with all the qualities and experience to do the job. I had the pleasure of speaking to Ant\u00f3nio this morning to congratulate him on behalf of the United Kingdom and emphasised our commitment to working closely with him in the years ahead.<\/p>\n<p>I also want to pay tribute to the work of Ban Ki-moon in his nearly 10 years as UN Secretary-General. He has led the United Nations with dignity and commitment, guiding its efforts to help those most in need and placing respect for human rights at the heart of its agenda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I am confident that Ant\u00f3nio Guterres will continue to build on these foundations, providing the leadership required to steer the UN through the many challenges facing our world, not least the crisis in Syria. I hope that the General Assembly can move quickly to accept this recommendation so that Ant\u00f3nio can begin his preparation for this vital job.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Follow the Foreign Secretary on Twitter <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BorisJohnson\">@BorisJohnson<\/a> and <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/borisjohnson\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Follow the Foreign Office on Twitter <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/foreignoffice\">@foreignoffice<\/a> and <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/foreignoffice?ref=hl\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Follow the Foreign Office on <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ukforeignoffice\/\">Instagram<\/a>, <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/ukforeignoffice\">YouTube<\/a> and <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/foreign-and-commonwealth-office?trk=biz-companies-cym\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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>Foreign Secretary welcomes the United Nations Security Council decision to formally recommend Ant\u00f3nio Guterres as the next UN Secretary-General<\/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\/74781"}],"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=74781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}