{"id":93305,"date":"2018-06-27T17:09:10","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T17:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=8c634c35475d5b2565d147ad64eecdac"},"modified":"2018-06-27T17:09:10","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T17:09:10","slug":"news-story-pm-meets-his-highness-the-aga-khan-27-june-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=93305","title":{"rendered":"News story: PM meets His Highness the Aga Khan: 27 June 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>This afternoon the Prime Minister held a bilateral meeting with His Highness the Aga Khan.<\/p>\n<p>She congratulated him on his longstanding leadership of the Ismaili community and on his visit to the UK as part of his Diamond Jubilee tour.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister thanked His Highness the Aga Khan for his foundation\u2019s activities around the world to improve understanding of Islam as a peaceful and tolerant religion. She also thanked him for his support of the UK government\u2019s agendas on integration and improving understanding of Muslim cultures.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister welcomed the educational and cultural contribution to the UK made by the Aga Khan\u2019s institutions, demonstrated by the new Aga Khan Centre in King\u2019s Cross. She also commended the vital work being done between the Department for International Development and the Aga Khan Foundation to deliver girls\u2019 educational programmes in Central Asia, Tanzania and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Finally, the Prime Minister reaffirmed the UK government\u2019s commitment to freedom of religion or belief as a fundamental right, and confirmed her interest in working with His Highness the Aga Khan and other faith leaders to promote better respect, collaboration and tolerance between religious communities internationally.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister hosted His Highness the Aga Khan at 10 Downing Street.<\/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\/93305"}],"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=93305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}