{"id":88837,"date":"2018-02-08T10:28:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T10:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=8c2419768ade618bec7edce63f157236"},"modified":"2018-02-08T10:28:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T10:28:00","slug":"press-release-the-gambia-rejoins-the-commonwealth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=88837","title":{"rendered":"Press release: The Gambia rejoins the Commonwealth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Gambia rejoined the Commonwealth on 8 February 2018, after the Commonwealth Secretariat confirmed their application had been approved unanimously by Commonwealth Member States.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Gambia\u2019s return to the Commonwealth family is fantastic news. When I visited the country last year, I saw huge enthusiasm for the values and opportunities offered by our modern, diverse Commonwealth.<\/p>\n<p>This shows that when a country commits to strengthening democracy, governance and the rule of law, it is welcomed back to the international community and the Commonwealth family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I very much hope to welcome President Barrow to the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in London in April.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 id=\"british-high-commissioner-to-the-gambia-sharon-wardle-welcomes-the-announcement\">British High Commissioner to The Gambia, Sharon Wardle, welcomes the announcement<\/h3>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3Lw5FZIXfyk\">British High Commissioner Sharon Wardle<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson gave a statement welcoming The Gambia re-joining the Commonwealth.<\/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\/88837"}],"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=88837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88866,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88837\/revisions\/88866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}