{"id":40512,"date":"2001-07-03T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2001-07-03T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/lobbying-for-a-seat-on-the-un-security-council\/"},"modified":"2001-07-03T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2001-07-03T01:43:56","slug":"lobbying-for-a-seat-on-the-un-security-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2001\/07\/03\/lobbying-for-a-seat-on-the-un-security-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Lobbying for a seat on the UN Security Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Hipolito Mejia travels this afternoon to Bahamas to participate in the XXII Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Economic Community (Caricom). This is Mejia&#146;s 15th trip abroad in less than a year in government. High up on his agenda is to lobby among Caribbean heads of state in order to secure their support to the DR&#146;s aspirations to a seat on the United Nations Security Council. The DR&#146;s leading contender for the seat is Mexico. Mexican President Vicente Fox is also traveling to Bahamas to convince Caribbean heads of government to vote for Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Hipolito Mejia travels this afternoon to Bahamas to participate in the XXII Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Economic Community (Caricom). This is Mejia&#146;s 15th trip abroad in less than a year in government. High up on his agenda is to lobby among Caribbean heads of state in order to secure their &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2001\/07\/03\/lobbying-for-a-seat-on-the-un-security-council\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40512"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}