{"id":138379,"date":"2015-04-28T12:10:54","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T09:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/us-state-department-committed-to-peace-process-for-cyprus-solution\/"},"modified":"2015-04-28T12:10:54","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T09:10:54","slug":"us-state-department-committed-to-peace-process-for-cyprus-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/us-state-department-committed-to-peace-process-for-cyprus-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"US State Department committed to peace process for Cyprus solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">US State Department Spokesman Jeff Rathke has reiterated his government`s longstanding commitment to the peace process in Cyprus under UN auspices and its willingness &#8220;to assist in any way that the parties would find useful.\u201d<br \/>\nRathke was asked for his reaction to new Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci`s electoral victory on Sunday in North Cyprus. \u201cWe congratulate Mustafa Akinci on his election as the leader of the Turkish Cypriot community\u201d, he said.<br \/>\nHe added that \u201cwe continue to support the negotiation process conducted under the auspices of the United Nations and Special Negotiator Eide, and to reunify the island as a bi-zonal and bi-communal federation.\u201d<br \/>\nRathke further reiterated \u201cour willingness to assist in any way that the parties would find useful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Replying to a question as to whether US Secretary of State John Kerry has spoken to Akinci he said he has \u201cno calls to read out from that.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cOur commitment to the peace process is longstanding, and the Secretary of course had a couple of opportunities to talk about that when he met with the foreign ministers of Greece and of Turkey\u201d, he noted replying to another question.<br \/>\n\u201cWe look forward to working with Mustafa Akinci in his capacity as the leader of the Turkish Cypriot community\u201d, he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US State Department Spokesman Jeff Rathke has reiterated his government`s longstanding commitment to the peace process<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}