{"id":307551,"date":"2018-12-28T11:45:38","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T11:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307551"},"modified":"2018-12-28T11:47:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T11:47:23","slug":"eam-sushma-swaraj-calls-on-bhutan-pm-lotay-tshering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/eam-sushma-swaraj-calls-on-bhutan-pm-lotay-tshering\/","title":{"rendered":"EAM Sushma Swaraj calls on Bhutan PM Lotay Tshering"},"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-307552 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sushma-swaraj-300x290.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"469\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/sushma-swaraj-300x290.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/sushma-swaraj-434x420.jpg 434w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/sushma-swaraj.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 469px) 100vw, 469px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">External Affairs Minister\u00a0Sushma Swaraj\u00a0on Friday called on visiting\u00a0Prime Minister of Bhutan\u00a0Lotay Tshering\u00a0during the course of which important aspects of the India-Bhutan\u00a0relationship came up for discussion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cEAM @SushmaSwaraj called on @PMBhutan Dr Lotay Tshering. Congratulated him on assumption of high office of PM of Bhutan. Warm exchange of views on important aspects of our bilateral relationship,\u201d EAM spokesperson Raveesh Kumar tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Dr Lotay Tshering earlier in the day received a ceremonial welcome at Rashtrapati Bhawan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cExceptional and cherished ties. @PMBhutan Dr Lotay Tshering receives ceremonial welcome @rashtrapatibhvn in the presence of PM @narendramodi on his first overseas visit after assuming office of the Prime Minister of #Bhutan last month,\u201d Kumar said.<\/span><\/p>\n<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-307553 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/modi-5-1-292x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"463\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/modi-5-1-292x300.jpg 292w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/modi-5-1-356x364.jpg 356w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/modi-5-1-409x420.jpg 409w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/modi-5-1.jpg 466w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi, later in a day held talks with Tshering on a host of key issues to strengthen bilateral ties between the two neighbouring countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kumar said, \u201cPM @narendramodi welcomes @PMBhutan Dr Lotay Tshering ahead of the delegation level talks to discuss the entire spectrum of bilateral relations &amp; explore new opportunities to further strengthen them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cPM @narendramodi &amp; @PMBhutan took stock of the bilateral relationship at the delegation level talks. Both sides renewed commitment to further deepen our partnership,\u201d EAM said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>External Affairs Minister\u00a0Sushma Swaraj\u00a0on Friday called on visiting\u00a0Prime Minister of Bhutan\u00a0Lotay Tshering\u00a0during the course of which important aspects of the India-Bhutan\u00a0relationship came up for discussion. \u201cEAM @SushmaSwaraj called on @PMBhutan Dr Lotay Tshering. Congratulated him on assumption of high office of PM of Bhutan. Warm exchange of views on important aspects of our bilateral relationship,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":307552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[4882,10443,316,2144,892],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307551"}],"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=307551"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307556,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307551\/revisions\/307556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}