{"id":313067,"date":"2019-06-07T05:41:29","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T05:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=313067"},"modified":"2019-06-07T05:41:29","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T05:41:29","slug":"s-jaishankar-to-visit-bhutan-today-his-first-bilateral-meet-as-foreign-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/s-jaishankar-to-visit-bhutan-today-his-first-bilateral-meet-as-foreign-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"S Jaishankar to visit Bhutan today, his first bilateral meet as foreign minister"},"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-313068 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/jaishankar-300x144.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/jaishankar-300x144.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/jaishankar.jpg 691w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">External Affairs Minister\u00a0Dr S Jaishankar will embark on a two-day visit to\u00a0Bhutan\u00a0on Friday, his first bilateral trip after assuming charge of the ministry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The visit reflects the importance that\u00a0India\u00a0attaches to its bilateral relationship with Bhutan, a close friend, and neighbour, the\u00a0Ministry of External Affairs\u00a0(MEA) said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cDuring the visit, Jaishankar is expected to meet King of Bhutan Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, Prime Minister Lotay Tshering and his counterpart Tandi Dorji,\u201d a statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe two sides will discuss entire gamut of bilateral relations, including the upcoming high-level exchanges, economic development and hydro-power cooperation,\u201d the statement added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cExternal Affairs Minister\u2019s visit is in keeping with the tradition of regular visits and exchange of views at the high levels between the two countries,\u201d it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India and Bhutan share a unique and time-tested bilateral relationship, characterized by utmost trust, goodwill and mutual understanding.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>External Affairs Minister\u00a0Dr S Jaishankar will embark on a two-day visit to\u00a0Bhutan\u00a0on Friday, his first bilateral trip after assuming charge of the ministry. The visit reflects the importance that\u00a0India\u00a0attaches to its bilateral relationship with Bhutan, a close friend, and neighbour, the\u00a0Ministry of External Affairs\u00a0(MEA) said in a statement. \u201cDuring the visit, Jaishankar is expected to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":313068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[4882,11454,574],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313067"}],"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=313067"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313076,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313067\/revisions\/313076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/313068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}