{"id":95846,"date":"2018-09-20T15:35:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T15:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=50b7f76508da70dae6b5e2e72e21655a"},"modified":"2018-09-20T15:35:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T15:35:00","slug":"press-release-foreign-secretary-statement-to-media-on-his-visit-to-burma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=95846","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Jeremy Hunt&#8217;s statement to media on his September 2018 visit to Burma"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt visited Burma on 19 and 20 September. The visit included talks with State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and a tour of northern Rakhine, the area where thousands of Rohingya have fled.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to media, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Burma is a country that has made some important steps towards democracy in the last few years, holding their first democratic elections 3 years ago. Although they are not fully democratic they have been moving in the right direction.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On the Rohingya crisis, the Foreign Secretary said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I went to Rakhine State myself to see what had happened. What is essential now is that the perpetrators of any atrocities are brought to justice, because without that there can be no solution to the huge refugee problem. We will use all the tools at our disposal to try and make sure there is accountability.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I\u2019ll be going to New York next week for the United Nations General Assembly to discuss what we should do. Britain can\u2019t act alone. We need to act in concert with other countries \u2013 we are a believer in the international rules based order. It\u2019s incredibly important for all of us that those perpetrators face justice.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On the first day of his visit, Foreign Secretary Hunt met human rights defenders from the Association for the Assistance of Political Prisoners and toured the Shwedagon Pagoda in Rangoon.<\/p>\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\/Jeremy_Hunt\">@Jeremy_Hunt<\/a> and <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jeremyhuntsws\/\">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 Jeremy Hunt gave a statement as he completed a 2-day visit to Burma.<\/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\/95846"}],"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=95846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95888,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95846\/revisions\/95888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}