{"id":13194,"date":"2012-08-05T14:07:27","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T12:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/update-1-clinton-to-hold-syria-talks-in-turkey-on-aug-11\/"},"modified":"2012-08-05T14:07:27","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T12:07:27","slug":"update-1-clinton-to-hold-syria-talks-in-turkey-on-aug-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-clinton-to-hold-syria-talks-in-turkey-on-aug-11\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Clinton to hold Syria talks in Turkey on Aug. 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Istanbul talks scheduled amid escalating Syria crisis<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Clinton also to visit Nigeria, Ghana, Benin<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LILONGWE<\/span> Aug 5 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. Secretary State of State<br \/>\nHillary Clinton will travel to Istanbul next week to hold talks<br \/>\nwith the Turkish government on the crisis in Syria, a State<br \/>\nDepartment spokeswoman said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Secretary Clinton goes to Istanbul for bilateral<br \/>\nconsultations with the Turkish government on Syria as well as to<br \/>\ncover other timely issues,&#8221; spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said in<br \/>\na statement sent to reporters during a visit by Clinton to the<br \/>\nsouthern African nation of Malawi.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Clinton&#8217;s planned talks in Istanbul on Aug. 11 will form<br \/>\npart of renewed international efforts to tackle the escalating<br \/>\ncrisis in Syria, where forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad<br \/>\nare fighting to put down a rebel uprising.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Prospects over the possibility of a negotiated solution have<br \/>\ndimmed since United Nations peace envoy Kofi Annan resigned this<br \/>\nweek complaining of paralysis in the U.N. Security Council over<br \/>\nthe Syria peace efforts.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nuland also announced that Clinton, whose current Africa<br \/>\ntour will take her to South Africa later on Sunday, would also<br \/>\nbe visiting Nigeria, Ghana and Benin next week on her way to the<br \/>\nIstanbul talks.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In Ghana, she was expected to attend the funeral of<br \/>\nPresident John Atta Mills, who died suddenly last month after an<br \/>\nillness.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Istanbul talks scheduled amid escalating Syria crisis * Clinton also to visit Nigeria, Ghana, Benin LILONGWE Aug 5 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. Secretary State of State Hillary Clinton will travel to Istanbul next week to hold talks with the Turkish government on the crisis in Syria, a State Department spokeswoman said on Sunday. &#8220;Secretary Clinton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-13194","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}