{"id":1671,"date":"2014-03-26T16:29:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T16:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/?p=1671"},"modified":"2014-03-26T16:29:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T16:29:06","slug":"crowe-welcomes-cyprus-reunification-talks-momentum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-welcomes-cyprus-reunification-talks-momentum\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowe welcomes Cyprus reunification talks momentum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, has stated his support for the on-going reunification talks in Cyprus.<\/p>\n<p>Crowe was speaking after the Cypriot Ambassador to Ireland came before the Oireachtas Foreign Affairs Committee to discuss the talks process and the positive momentum they have gathered since they resumed on 11 February.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere is growing optimism and positivity surrounding these new reunification talks and the first phase will end with a meeting between the Cypriot President and the northern Cypriot leader on 31 March.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI fully support these talks and wish the negotiators well in their difficult, but important deliberations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is important that the EU and particularly Ireland play a pro-active role in helping to progress the talks, and I will be encouraging the Irish Government to do this at every opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSimilarly as in Ireland, it is clear that Cypriot reunification makes social, economic, and political sense.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Se\u00e1n Crowe TD, has stated his support for the on-going reunification talks in Cyprus. Crowe was speaking after the Cypriot Ambassador to Ireland came before the Oireachtas Foreign Affairs Committee to discuss the talks process and the positive momentum they have gathered since they resumed on 11 February. Deputy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyprus","category-foreign-affairs-committee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1672,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions\/1672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}