{"id":303030,"date":"2018-09-20T12:36:08","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T12:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=303030"},"modified":"2018-09-20T12:36:11","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T12:36:11","slug":"india-pakistan-foreign-ministers-to-meet-in-new-york-on-sidelines-of-unga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-pakistan-foreign-ministers-to-meet-in-new-york-on-sidelines-of-unga\/","title":{"rendered":"India-Pakistan foreign ministers to meet in New York on sidelines of UNGA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-pakistan-foreign-ministers-to-meet-in-new-york-on-sidelines-of-unga\/sushma-mehmood\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-303031\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-303031 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/sushma-mehmood-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/sushma-mehmood-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/sushma-mehmood-768x443.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/sushma-mehmood-696x401.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/sushma-mehmood-728x420.jpg 728w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/sushma-mehmood.jpg 803w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><\/a>Indian and Pakistani foreign ministers will meet in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session next week, the government said today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;I can confirm that on the request of the Pakistani side, a meeting between EAM Sushma Swaraj &amp; Pakistani foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi will take place on the sidelines of UNGA at a mutually convenient date and time,&#8221;\u00a0MEA spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;It is a meeting, the agenda is not finalized,&#8221; Kumar added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This will be the first ministerial-level engagement between India and Pakistan under the new Imran Khan-led government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The move comes after Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking resumption of dialogue between India and Pakistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In the letter, Imran Khan called for a meeting between Foreign Ministers of both the countries &#8211; Sushma Swaraj and Shah Mehmood Qureshi, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meet.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian and Pakistani foreign ministers will meet in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) session next week, the government said today. &#8220;I can confirm that on the request of the Pakistani side, a meeting between EAM Sushma Swaraj &amp; Pakistani foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi will take place on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":303031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[3867,574,316,5163,48,5166,892,5165,5164],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303030"}],"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=303030"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303033,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303030\/revisions\/303033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/303031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}