{"id":79193,"date":"2017-02-23T12:32:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T12:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=98a7e9b03073c70d64a424a195ed10ae"},"modified":"2017-02-23T12:32:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T12:32:38","slug":"news-story-pm-call-with-prime-minister-turnbull-of-australia-23-february-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=79193","title":{"rendered":"News story: PM call with Prime Minister Turnbull of Australia: 23 February 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>A Downing Street spokesperson said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Prime Minister spoke to Prime Minister Turnbull of Australia this morning.<\/p>\n<p>They discussed our co-operation in the campaign to defeat Daesh, and agreed on the importance of creating the conditions for long-term stability in Iraq. Prime Minister May was clear we need to see a political transition in Syria, away from President Assad.<\/p>\n<p>They agreed on the need to tackle Iran\u2019s destabilising influence in the Middle East, and the importance of the nuclear deal and ensuring it is rigorously policed and enforced.<\/p>\n<p>On Brexit, Prime Minister Turnbull reiterated Australia\u2019s commitment to maintaining a close partnership with the UK as we leave the EU. Both Prime Ministers said they looked forward to holding preliminary conversations on a comprehensive bilateral free trade agreement in due course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">They ended the call by looking forward to seeing each other at the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.g20.org\/Webs\/G20\/EN\/Home\/home_node.html\">G20 meeting in Hamburg<\/a> in July.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theresa May spoke to Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull about stability in the Middle East, Brexit and a free trade agreement.<\/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\/79193"}],"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=79193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}