{"id":303329,"date":"2018-09-27T12:08:51","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T12:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=303329"},"modified":"2018-09-27T12:08:51","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T12:08:51","slug":"maldives-president-elect-ibrahim-mohamed-solih-invites-pm-modi-to-attend-oath-taking-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/maldives-president-elect-ibrahim-mohamed-solih-invites-pm-modi-to-attend-oath-taking-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Maldives&#8217; President-elect Ibrahim Mohamed Solih invites PM Modi to attend oath-taking ceremony"},"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=\"size-medium wp-image-303297 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/modi-award-247x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/modi-award-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/modi-award-346x420.jpg 346w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/modi-award.jpg 587w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Maldives&#8217; President-elect Ibrahim Mohamed Solih who won in a dramatic turn of events ousting Abdulla Yameen, has invited Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to attend his oath-taking ceremony.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The oath-taking ceremony will be held in November and a team is already working on the inauguration ceremony.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">President Solih&#8217;s spokesperson Mariya Ahmed Didi said on Wednesday that Modi was invited to the ceremony during a telephonic conversation between the two sides following Solih&#8217;s victory in the presidential elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, Maldives is the only South Asian neighbour that Modi has not visited since taking office in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the first world leader to call Ibrahim Mohamed Solih and congratulated him on his victory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A statement by the Indian Prime Minister&#8217;s Office (PMO) states, &#8220;The two leaders agreed to work closely together to further strengthen the friendly, close and good neighbourly relations between the two countries.\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 Ministry of External Affairs said that the election marks the &#8220;triumph&#8221; of democratic forces in the Maldives and also reflects the firm commitment to the values of democracy and the rule of law.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maldives&#8217; President-elect Ibrahim Mohamed Solih who won in a dramatic turn of events ousting Abdulla Yameen, has invited Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to attend his oath-taking ceremony. The oath-taking ceremony will be held in November and a team is already working on the inauguration ceremony. President Solih&#8217;s spokesperson Mariya Ahmed Didi said on Wednesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":303297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[5254,1445],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303329"}],"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=303329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303330,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303329\/revisions\/303330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/303297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}