{"id":4795,"date":"2011-08-18T10:35:43","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T10:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=4795"},"modified":"2011-08-18T10:35:43","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T10:35:43","slug":"ban-welcomes-step-towards-dialogue-following-deadly-violence-in-malawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/18\/ban-welcomes-step-towards-dialogue-following-deadly-violence-in-malawi\/","title":{"rendered":"Ban welcomes \u2018step towards dialogue\u2019 following deadly violence in Malawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> &nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4797\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/474531-ban-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4797\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4797\" title=\"474531-ban (1)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/474531-ban-1-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4797\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"fullstory\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/sg\/\">Secretary-General<\/a>\u00a0Ban Ki-moon today welcomed the signing of a joint communiqu\u00e9 by the Malawian Government and civil society organizations in a meeting facilitated by the United Nations following deadly clashes last month.\u201cThe Secretary-General is encouraged by this positive development which reflects the commitment of both sides to engage constructively in the search for a peaceful solution to the country&#8217;s current difficulties,\u201d a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/apps\/sg\/sgstats.asp?nid=5459\">statement<\/a>\u00a0issued by Mr. Ban\u2019s spokesperson said of yesterday\u2019s meeting in Lilongwe, the capital, calling the communiqu\u00e9 an important step towards a process of dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe calls on the Malawian stakeholders to continue their efforts to create a political and social atmosphere conducive to addressing the multi-faceted challenges in the country,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>Last month at least 19 people were reportedly killed and many others injured during clashes between security forces and anti-Government demonstrators protesting against shortages of fuel and foreign exchange and calling for greater freedoms and human rights. At the time Mr. Ban voiced his sorrow at the deaths and called for differences to be resolved by peaceful means.<\/p>\n<p>According to media reports, organizers cancelled plans to resume anti-Government protests today after businessmen close to the governing party obtained a court injunction and because of UN mediation efforts, but they said they would continue protests next month unless the Government addresses economic problems and ends public threats against those with dissenting views.<\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s statement, Mr. Ban said he was \u201cpleased with and strongly supports the facilitation role\u201d played by Jo\u00e3o Honwana, Director at the UN Department of Political Affairs, and reiterated \u201cthe UN\u2019s readiness to continue its facilitation efforts as requested by the parties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source UN<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Secretary-General\u00a0Ban Ki-moon today welcomed the signing of a joint communiqu\u00e9 by the Malawian Government and civil society organizations in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[258,1021,735,470,1019],"class_list":["post-4795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-malawi","tag-protest","tag-special-dates","tag-un","tag-un-chief-ban-ki-moon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}