{"id":310074,"date":"2019-03-03T05:00:58","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T05:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310074"},"modified":"2019-03-03T05:00:58","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T05:00:58","slug":"modi-speaks-with-emir-of-qatar-underscores-need-to-curb-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/modi-speaks-with-emir-of-qatar-underscores-need-to-curb-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Modi speaks with Emir of Qatar, underscores need to curb terrorism"},"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-299861 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Narendra-Modi-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/Narendra-Modi-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/Narendra-Modi-324x235.jpg 324w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/Narendra-Modi-581x420.jpg 581w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/Narendra-Modi.jpg 591w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Ahmad bin Khalifa Al Thani called Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The two leaders discussed the regional situation, where Modi underscored that terrorism continues to pose a serious risk to peace and security in the region and beyond. He stressed the importance of demonstrable and immediate action by the concerned for putting an end to all forms of terrorism and ending all support to it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">PM Modi thanked the Emir of Qatar for his leadership and guidance to the rapid strengthening of bilateral relations, especially in recent years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIndia attaches great significance to further strengthening her relations with Qatar, which is our close friend and with which we share an extended neighbourhood,\u201d PM Modi mentioned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The leaders noted the historic significance of participation of India\u2019s External Affairs Minister as Guest of Honour in the 46th Council of the Foreign Ministers of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Abu Dhabi on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Ahmad bin Khalifa Al Thani called Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday. The two leaders discussed the regional situation, where Modi underscored that terrorism continues to pose a serious risk to peace and security in the region and beyond. He stressed the importance of demonstrable and immediate action [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":299861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[316,11023],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310074"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310075,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310074\/revisions\/310075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}