{"id":91268,"date":"2018-04-22T16:29:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T16:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=6f312659f6ab27497872dde717cf5fd9"},"modified":"2018-04-22T16:29:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T16:29:00","slug":"press-release-foreign-secretary-travels-to-toronto-for-g7-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=91268","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Foreign Secretary travels to Toronto for G7 meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Today and tomorrow (22 and 23 April) the Foreign Secretary will be in Toronto for a meeting of Foreign Ministers from the G7 countries. During the summit the Foreign Secretary will discuss issues ranging from gender equality and women\u2019s empowerment, to non-proliferation and disarmament, to conflict prevention and stability. For the session on counter-extremism the Foreign Secretary will be joined by Home Office Security Minister Ben Wallace.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking ahead of the meeting, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I am proud to represent the UK at this meeting of the top economies and international powers in the world. Last week London hosted the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/topical-events\/commonwealth-heads-of-government-meeting-2018\">Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting<\/a>, and later this week I will travel to Brussels for a NATO Foreign Ministers\u2019 meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The UK and Canada are the only 2 countries that are members of all these organisations \u2013 evidence not just the closeness of the UK-Canada relationship, but of the UK\u2019s influence in the world. Influence that will continue long after we leave the European Union.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The G7 is a group of likeminded partners who work to protect the rules-based international system. I welcome unanimous G7 support in recent weeks both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/g7-leaders-statement-on-chemical-weapons-use-in-syria\">for the joint UK\/US\/French action in Syria<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/g7-foreign-ministers-statement-on-the-salisbury-attack\">for the UK\u2019s response to the terrible poisonings in Salisbury<\/a>. I look forward to continuing that work in Toronto this week.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2 id=\"background\">Background<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The G7 countries are the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States. The EU, represented by High Representative Federica Mogherini, will also attend the meeting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Follow the Foreign Secretary on Twitter <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BorisJohnson\">@BorisJohnson<\/a> and <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/borisjohnson\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Follow the Foreign Office on Twitter <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/foreignoffice\">@foreignoffice<\/a> and <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/foreignoffice?ref=hl\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Follow the Foreign Office on <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ukforeignoffice\/\">Instagram<\/a>, <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/ukforeignoffice\">YouTube<\/a> and <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/foreign-and-commonwealth-office?trk=biz-companies-cym\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"contact postal-address\" id=\"contact_193\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Media enquiries<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<p class=\"adr\">\n<span class=\"street-address\">For journalists <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"email\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Email<\/span><br \/>\n              <a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:newsdesk@fco.gov.uk\">newsdesk@fco.gov.uk<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Newsdesk <\/span><br \/>\n              020 7008 3100\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson travels to Toronto for a meeting of Foreign Ministers from G7 countries.<\/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\/91268"}],"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=91268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91289,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91268\/revisions\/91289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}