{"id":3345,"date":"2014-07-23T22:01:03","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T05:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/?p=3345"},"modified":"2014-07-24T10:24:20","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T17:24:20","slug":"joint-statement-lu-bold-j-baird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/2014\/joint-statement-lu-bold-j-baird\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint Statement Lu Bold &#038; J Baird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Ministers Lu Bold and John Baird issued a <a href=\"http:\/\/mfa.gov.mn\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=3494%3A2014-07-24-04-03-36&amp;catid=43%3A2009-12-20-21-55-03&amp;Itemid=62&amp;lang=mn\">joint statement<\/a> following their discussions in Ulaanbaatar. The statement included no surprises nor any concrete news that I can discern, but no translation is available yet.<\/p>\n<p>The topics covered in the statement include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>reaffirm partnership<\/li>\n<li>democracy, human rights, rule of law<\/li>\n<li>Mongolia&#8217;s designation as a &#8220;country of focus&#8221; for Canadian development assistance<\/li>\n<li>urban\/rural development, judicial reform &amp; police cooperation<\/li>\n<li>FIPA<\/li>\n<li>cooperation in international organizations<\/li>\n<li>people-to-people relations<\/li>\n<li>importance of collaboration in education<\/li>\n<li>40 years of diplomatic relations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[July 24: The English versions of the statement were published on the <a href=\"http:\/\/mfa.gov.mn\/en\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=3489%3Ajoint-statement-for-mongolia-visit-minister-bold-and-minister-baird&amp;catid=43%3A2009-12-20-21-55-03&amp;Itemid=62&amp;lang=en\" target=\"_blank\">MFA<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.international.gc.ca\/media\/aff\/news-communiques\/2014\/07\/24a.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">DFATD<\/a> websites later July 23 and early July 24, respectively. The bullet points above do summarize the statement which offered nothing new and little of substance.]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Ministers Lu Bold and John Baird issued a joint statement following their discussions in Ulaanbaatar. The statement included no surprises nor any concrete news that I can discern, but no translation is available yet. The topics covered in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/2014\/joint-statement-lu-bold-j-baird\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6444,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[983090],"class_list":["post-3345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","tag-julian-dierkes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6444"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3345"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3348,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3345\/revisions\/3348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}