{"id":83269,"date":"2016-12-03T08:23:01","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T06:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/joint-statement-by-ministers-dion-and-bibeau-regarding-the-gambias-presidential-election\/"},"modified":"2016-12-03T08:23:01","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T06:23:01","slug":"joint-statement-by-ministers-dion-and-bibeau-regarding-the-gambias-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/joint-statement-by-ministers-dion-and-bibeau-regarding-the-gambias-presidential-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint statement by ministers Dion and Bibeau regarding The Gambia\u2019s presidential election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/joint-statement-by-ministers-dion-and-bibeau-regarding-the-gambias-presidential-election?lang=en\">Joint statement by ministers Dion and Bibeau regarding The Gambia\u2019s presidential election<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p>The Honourable St&eacute;phane Dion, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of International Development and La Francophonie, today issued the following statement regarding The Gambia&rsquo;s presidential election:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Canada commends the Gambian people for peacefully exercising their democratic rights and congratulates Adama Barrow for his victory.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Peace and lawful transitions of power are critical to democracies in Africa and around the world.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is an important milestone in The Gambia&rsquo;s future, and Canada is encouraged by the fact all candidates have stated that they respect the will of the Gambian people and the result of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As we move ahead, Canada encourages all Gambians to work together to build a better future for all.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO on behalf of Department of Foreign Affairs Canada.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"well well-sm\"><b>Media files<\/b><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/thumb\/87c46c58dd05aa1\/200\/70\" alt=\"Department of Foreign Affairs Canada\"\/><br \/>Download logo<\/div>\n<p><small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/joint-statement-by-ministers-dion-and-bibeau-regarding-the-gambias-presidential-election?lang=en\">APO &#8211; Africa-Newsroom: latest news releases related to Africa<\/a><\/small><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joint statement by ministers Dion and Bibeau regarding The Gambia\u2019s presidential election: The Honourable St&eacute;phane Dion, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of International Development and La Francophonie, today issued the following statement regarding The Gambia&rsquo;s presidential election: &ldquo;Canada commends the Gambian people for peacefully exercising their democratic rights and congratulates [&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":[22235,9029,4875,22355,11652,9768,19824,20733,2272],"class_list":{"0":"post-83269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-africa-news-2","7":"tag-bibeau","8":"tag-dion","9":"tag-election","10":"tag-gambias","11":"tag-joint","12":"tag-ministers","13":"tag-presidential","14":"tag-regarding","15":"tag-statement","16":"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\/83269","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=83269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}