{"id":90291,"date":"2018-03-22T19:51:08","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T19:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=2a3c2a9ff450110b72a7ec6d35df1c63"},"modified":"2018-03-22T19:51:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T19:51:08","slug":"press-release-pm-trilateral-with-president-macron-and-chancellor-merkel-22-march-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=90291","title":{"rendered":"Press release: PM trilateral with President Macron and Chancellor Merkel: 22 March 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>A Number 10 spokesman said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Prime Minister Theresa May today met with President Macron and Chancellor Merkel on the fringes of the European Council in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister provided the President and Chancellor with a detailed update on the investigation into the reckless use of a military nerve agent, of a type produced by Russia, on the streets of Salisbury.<\/p>\n<p>She said there had been a positive identification of the chemical used as part of the Novichok group of nerve agents by our world leading scientists at Porton Down.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister also outlined our knowledge that Russia has previously produced this agent; Russia\u2019s record of conducting state-sponsored assassinations; and our assessment that Russia views some defectors as legitimate targets for assassinations.<\/p>\n<p>The UK, Germany and France reaffirmed that there is no plausible explanation other than that the Russian state was responsible.<\/p>\n<p>The leaders agreed on the importance of sending a strong European message in response to Russia\u2019s actions and agreed to remain in close contact in coming days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">On Iran, they reaffirmed their commitment to the JCPOA and agreed to hold further discussions in April.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister met with President Macron of France and Chancellor Merkel of Germany in Brussels.<\/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\/90291"}],"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=90291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}