{"id":79450,"date":"2017-03-04T09:31:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T09:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=ccbbfadb8027f49f0c8472c7798d24eb"},"modified":"2017-03-04T09:31:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T09:31:00","slug":"news-story-foreign-secretary-to-visit-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=79450","title":{"rendered":"News story: Foreign Secretary to visit Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>An FCO spokeswoman said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Foreign Secretary has accepted an invitation from Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to visit Moscow<br \/>\nin the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary have made clear that our policy towards Russia is to \u2018engage but beware\u2019 and the visit is entirely consistent with this approach.<\/p>\n<p>Discussions will focus on the UK-Russia relationship and current international issues including Syria and Ukraine, where we continue to have significant differences. This is not a return to business as usual and the Foreign Secretary will continue to be robust on those issues where we differ.<\/p>\n<p>We have always been clear that the UK will engage with Russia where it is in our national interest to do so.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Details of precise timings will be confirmed in due course. A potential visit has been in the pipeline for some time, with the Prime Minister and President Putin discussing this when they met in China in September 2016.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, will travel to Moscow for high-level talks in the coming weeks.<\/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\/79450"}],"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=79450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}