{"id":68212,"date":"2016-04-17T13:19:37","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T11:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/canada-issues-statement-on-inauguration-of-president-of-republic-of-congo\/"},"modified":"2016-04-17T13:19:37","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T11:19:37","slug":"canada-issues-statement-on-inauguration-of-president-of-republic-of-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/canada-issues-statement-on-inauguration-of-president-of-republic-of-congo\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada issues statement on inauguration of president of Republic of Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span dir=\"ltr\"> TORONTO, Canada, April 17, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Honourable St\u00e9phane Dion, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of International Development and La\u00a0Francophonie, today issued the following statement:<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>\u201cCanada deplores the flawed electoral process that led to Denis Sassou Nguesso\u2019s inauguration today as president of the Republic of Congo, including a number of arbitrary arrests, imposed restrictions on telecommunications and free movement, and attempts to intimidate the media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCanada is concerned by reports of post-election violence, and we call on all parties to exercise restraint and to strive for the peaceful settlement of political tensions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn accordance with Canada and Congo\u2019s joint commitments in the Francophonie, the strengthening of democratic institutions is essential to ensure inclusive governance, peaceful pluralism and macroeconomic growth, which will benefit the people of Congo.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO, Canada, April 17, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; The Honourable St\u00e9phane Dion, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of International Development and La\u00a0Francophonie, today issued the following statement: \u201cCanada deplores the flawed electoral process that led to Denis Sassou Nguesso\u2019s inauguration today as president of the Republic of Congo, including [&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-68212","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\/68212","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=68212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}