{"id":301940,"date":"2018-08-29T07:11:44","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T07:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301940"},"modified":"2018-08-29T07:11:44","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T07:11:44","slug":"external-affairs-minister-sushma-swaraj-arrives-in-cambodia-for-bilateral-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/external-affairs-minister-sushma-swaraj-arrives-in-cambodia-for-bilateral-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj arrives in Cambodia for bilateral talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-301941 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/swaraj-combodia-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/swaraj-combodia-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/swaraj-combodia-696x467.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/swaraj-combodia-626x420.jpg 626w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/swaraj-combodia.jpg 729w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/>External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj who arrived yesterday on her first official visit to Cambodia,\u00a0held bilateral talks with the\u00a0Cambodian Minister of Foreign Affairs,\u00a0Prak Sokhonna\u00a0on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Swaraj is scheduled to meet\u00a0Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and President of Senate\u00a0Say Chhum\u00a0as part of her two-day visit to the South-East Asian nation<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Swaraj, on Tuesday also met numerous foreign dignitaries from Japan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh in order to strengthen bilateral relations and strategic partnership with the respective nations. She also co-chaired the 16th meeting of the Joint Commission in Vietnam\u2019s capital, Hanoi, along with Vietnamese counterpart Pham Binh Minh. Numerous Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) were also signed between the two countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The aim of Swaraj\u2019s visit to Cambodia is to deepen India&#8217;s strategic cooperation with one of the key ASEAN countries amidst China&#8217;s rising influence in the region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On her four-day two-nation tour, she was\u00a0received by Indian Ambassador to Cambodia, Manika Jain, and other senior officials at the Phnom Penh international airport on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj who arrived yesterday on her first official visit to Cambodia,\u00a0held bilateral talks with the\u00a0Cambodian Minister of Foreign Affairs,\u00a0Prak Sokhonna\u00a0on Wednesday. Swaraj is scheduled to meet\u00a0Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and President of Senate\u00a0Say Chhum\u00a0as part of her two-day visit to the South-East Asian nation Swaraj, on Tuesday also met numerous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":301941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[4467,4352,892],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301942,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301940\/revisions\/301942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}