{"id":61933,"date":"2016-01-15T12:27:13","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T10:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/the-united-states-calls-for-meaningful-dialogue-about-oromo-community-concerns\/"},"modified":"2016-01-15T12:27:13","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T10:27:13","slug":"the-united-states-calls-for-meaningful-dialogue-about-oromo-community-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/the-united-states-calls-for-meaningful-dialogue-about-oromo-community-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"The United States Calls for Meaningful Dialogue about Oromo Community Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span dir=\"ltr\"> WASHINGTON D.C., United States of America, January 15, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Press Statement<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>John Kirby<br \/>Spokesperson,\u00a0Bureau of Public Affairs<\/p>\n<p>Washington, DC<\/p>\n<p>January 14, 2016<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>The United States is increasingly concerned by the continued stifling of independent voices in Ethiopia, including the detention of Oromo political party leaders. These arrests have a chilling effect on much needed public consultations to resolve legitimate political grievances in Oromia.<\/p>\n<p>We support the Government of Ethiopia\u2019s December commitment to public consultation with affected communities. For these consultations to be meaningful, all interested parties must be able to express their views freely.<\/p>\n<p>We reaffirm our call on the Ethiopian Government to refrain from silencing dissent and to protect the constitutionally enshrined rights of all citizens, including the right to gather peacefully, to write, and to speak freely as voices of a diverse nation. We call for the release of those imprisoned for exercising their rights, such as political party leaders and journalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON D.C., United States of America, January 15, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; Press Statement John KirbySpokesperson,\u00a0Bureau of Public Affairs Washington, DC January 14, 2016 The United States is increasingly concerned by the continued stifling of independent voices in Ethiopia, including the detention of Oromo political party leaders. These arrests have a chilling effect on [&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-61933","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\/61933","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=61933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}