{"id":83141,"date":"2017-08-01T13:21:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T13:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=9671ae770da3e12a6e75abe2c9bf43ac"},"modified":"2017-08-01T13:21:19","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T13:21:19","slug":"news-story-minister-for-europe-statement-on-bulgaria-macedonia-friendship-treaty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=83141","title":{"rendered":"News story: Minister for Europe statement on Bulgaria-Macedonia Friendship Treaty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Minister for Europe, Sir Alan Duncan, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>On recent visits to Bulgaria and Macedonia I saw a strong commitment to improving relations between the two countries. I welcome the signing of the Bulgaria-Macedonia Friendship Treaty as a step in the right direction. Good neighbourly relations between Bulgaria and Macedonia are crucial to securing the stability of the region.<\/p>\n<p>The UK fully supports the new Government in Macedonia as it introduces much-needed domestic reforms, and resets and improves its relationship with its neighbours. The UK and Bulgaria also share a deep friendship and we look forward to its Presidency of the European Council in 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I hope that both Parliaments will now ratify the Friendship Treaty, to make the most of this opportunity for progress.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Alan Duncan has welcomed the signing of the new treaty by Bulgaria\u2019s Prime Minister Borrisov and Macedonia\u2019s Prime Minister Zaev in Skopje, Macedonia<\/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\/83141"}],"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=83141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}