{"id":74845,"date":"2016-10-08T07:48:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T07:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=824647c58108127e1e897d43b853ac6d"},"modified":"2016-10-08T07:48:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T07:48:00","slug":"news-story-prime-ministers-phone-call-with-antonio-guterres-7-october-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=74845","title":{"rendered":"Press release: PM call with Antonio Guterres: 7 October 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>A Downing Street spokesperson said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Prime Minister called Antonio Guterres earlier today, ahead of his formal confirmation as the next <abbr title=\"United Nations\">UN<\/abbr> Secretary-General. The Prime Minister said the UK was delighted by his election.<\/p>\n<p>She emphasised the UK\u2019s deep commitment to the United Nations, reiterating the message from her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/speeches\/theresa-mays-speech-to-the-un-general-assembly\">address to the <abbr title=\"United Nations\">UN<\/abbr> General Assembly<\/a> last month that now was the moment for countries to turn towards it and provide strong support for its vision and values, as a community of nations aiming to deliver security and reduce injustice across the globe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The Prime Minister said the UK stood ready to provide any support Mr Guterres required as he prepared to assume the role.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Mr Guterres said that Brexit presented opportunities for the UK and that Britain would continue to play an important, outward-looking role in the world, including in key global institutions like the <abbr title=\"United Nations\">UN<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">They looked forward to close co-operation and to meeting in person soon.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Theresa May called Antonio Guterres ahead of his formal confirmation as the next United Nations 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\/74845"}],"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=74845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74860,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74845\/revisions\/74860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}