{"id":301971,"date":"2018-08-30T06:32:40","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T06:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301971"},"modified":"2018-08-30T06:36:47","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T06:36:47","slug":"pm-modi-arrives-in-nepal-to-attend-bimstec-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-modi-arrives-in-nepal-to-attend-bimstec-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi arrives in Nepal to attend BIMSTEC summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-301972 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/modi-in-nepal-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/modi-in-nepal-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/modi-in-nepal-768x567.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/modi-in-nepal-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/modi-in-nepal-485x360.jpg 485w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/modi-in-nepal-696x514.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/modi-in-nepal-568x420.jpg 568w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/modi-in-nepal.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/>Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Kathmandu on Thursday, to attend the fourth Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) summit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Modi, who is on a two-day visit to Nepal was welcomed by Nepal\u2019s Defence Minister Ishwar Pokhrel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Prime Minister on Wednesday said that \u201chis participation in the BIMSTEC summit in Kathmandu signals India&#8217;s highest priority to its neighbourhood and a strong commitment to continue deepening ties with the \u2018extended neighbourhood\u2019 in South-East Asia.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The BIMSTEC summit, which is slated to be held from August 30 to August 31,\u00a0is the regional group of seven countries geographically situated near the Bay of Bengal. It includes Bangladesh, India, Bhutan, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Nepal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In a statement before leaving for Nepal, Prime Minister Modi said that he will interact with the leaders of Myanmar, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Thailand on the margins of the summit, to further enrich their regional cooperation and advance the collective efforts to build a peaceful and prosperous Bay of Bengal region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He also said, \u201cI also look forward to meeting Prime Minister of Nepal, Rt. Hon. K.P. Sharma Oli and reviewing the progress we have made in our bilateral ties since my last visit to Nepal in May 2018.\u00a0\u00a0Prime Minister Oli and I will have the honour and privilege to inaugurate the Nepal Bharat Maitri Dharmashala at the Pashupatinath temple complex.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He further added, \u201cI am confident that the Fourth BISMTEC Summit will further consolidate the progress made thus far under BIMSTEC, and will chart the course for building a peaceful and prosperous Bay of Bengal Region.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Kathmandu on Thursday, to attend the fourth Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) summit. Modi, who is on a two-day visit to Nepal was welcomed by Nepal\u2019s Defence Minister Ishwar Pokhrel. The Prime Minister on Wednesday said that \u201chis participation in the BIMSTEC summit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":301972,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[4494,4495,4493,316,552],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301971"}],"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=301971"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301975,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301971\/revisions\/301975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}