{"id":60171,"date":"2015-12-18T12:15:41","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T10:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/the-united-states-commends-somali-national-consultative-forum-declaration-and-urges-final-agreement-on-electoral-model-by-january-10\/"},"modified":"2015-12-18T12:15:41","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T10:15:41","slug":"the-united-states-commends-somali-national-consultative-forum-declaration-and-urges-final-agreement-on-electoral-model-by-january-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/the-united-states-commends-somali-national-consultative-forum-declaration-and-urges-final-agreement-on-electoral-model-by-january-10\/","title":{"rendered":"The United States Commends Somali National Consultative Forum Declaration and Urges Final Agreement on Electoral Model by January 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span dir=\"ltr\"> WASHINGTON D.C., United States of America, December 18, 2015\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Press Statement<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Mark C. Toner<br \/>Deputy Department Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p>Washington, DC<\/p>\n<p>December 17, 2015<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The United States commends Somalia\u2019s National Consultative Forum for its efforts to reach consensus on an inclusive, transparent, and legitimate electoral process in 2016. We welcome the agreed principles in the Mogadishu Declaration as essential elements of a more inclusive and democratic electoral process than the 2012 process. We encourage all participants to seek compromise and to uphold their commitment to reach a final agreement by January 10, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The United States strongly supports the participants\u2019 commitments to not extend the legislative or executive branch mandates, consistent with United Nations Security Council Resolution 2232. An on-schedule electoral process that is conducted in a fair, transparent, and inclusive manner will strengthen the relationship between the Somali people and their government and accelerate stabilization and development efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The United States remains a committed partner to the people and government of Somalia and will continue to support Somalia\u2019s efforts to realize a peaceful, united, and prosperous future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON D.C., United States of America, December 18, 2015\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; Press Statement Mark C. TonerDeputy Department Spokesperson Washington, DC December 17, 2015 \u00a0 The United States commends Somalia\u2019s National Consultative Forum for its efforts to reach consensus on an inclusive, transparent, and legitimate electoral process in 2016. We welcome the agreed principles [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[428,4585,830],"class_list":{"0":"post-60171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-africa-news-2","7":"tag-africa","8":"tag-apo","9":"tag-news","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\/60171","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=60171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}