{"id":66383,"date":"2016-03-21T13:04:36","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T11:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/the-united-states-welcomes-release-of-djiboutian-prisoners-of-war\/"},"modified":"2016-03-21T13:04:36","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T11:04:36","slug":"the-united-states-welcomes-release-of-djiboutian-prisoners-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/the-united-states-welcomes-release-of-djiboutian-prisoners-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The United States Welcomes Release of Djiboutian Prisoners of War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span dir=\"ltr\"> WASHINGTON D.C., United States of America, March 21, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Press Statement<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>John Kirby<br \/>Assistant Secretary\u00a0and Department Spokesperson,\u00a0Bureau of Public Affairs<\/p>\n<p>Washington, DC<\/p>\n<p>March 19, 2016<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The United States welcomes the release by Eritrea of four Djiboutian prisoners, taken captive after the 2008 conflict over the shared border between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>We remain concerned for the remaining prisoners of war who have not been reunited with their families. We thank the Government of Qatar for their mediation efforts to bring about their release and this contribution to regional peace and security.<\/p>\n<p>We reaffirm our strong support for Qatar\u2019s ongoing efforts to mediate and the work of the Governments of Djibouti and Eritrea to resolve outstanding issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON D.C., United States of America, March 21, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; Press Statement John KirbyAssistant Secretary\u00a0and Department Spokesperson,\u00a0Bureau of Public Affairs Washington, DC March 19, 2016 \u00a0 The United States welcomes the release by Eritrea of four Djiboutian prisoners, taken captive after the 2008 conflict over the shared border between the two countries. [&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-66383","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\/66383","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=66383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}