{"id":315254,"date":"2019-09-26T03:03:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T03:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315254"},"modified":"2019-09-26T04:29:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T04:29:32","slug":"pm-modi-meets-armenian-counterpart-on-sidelines-of-unga-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-modi-meets-armenian-counterpart-on-sidelines-of-unga-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi meets Armenian counterpart on sidelines of UNGA in New York"},"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-full wp-image-315255 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/modi-nikol.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"726\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/modi-nikol.jpg 726w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/modi-nikol-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/modi-nikol-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/modi-nikol-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/modi-nikol-696x482.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/modi-nikol-606x420.jpg 606w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 726px) 100vw, 726px\" \/>Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan on the sidelines of the High Level Segment of the 74th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York on Wednesday. Both sides reviewed the bilateral relations between the two countries and expressed satisfaction at their steady growth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Recalling the historical linkages going back to centuries between India and Armenia, both Prime Ministers highly valued the goodwill existing between the peoples of the two countries which provides a solid basis for their bilateral cooperation. Prime Minister Narendra Modi thanked Prime Minister Pashinyan for Armenia&#8217;s consistent support for India&#8217;s candidature for the permanent membership of an expanded UN Security Council.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Stressing on the need to considerably enhance the volume of bilateral trade and investment, Prime Minister expressed interest of Indian companies to explore opportunities in IT, agro-processing, pharmaceuticals, tourism and other sectors of Armenia. Prime Minister sought Armenia&#8217;s support for concluding an expeditious trading arrangement between India and the Eurasian Economic Union (EaEU) of which Armenia is a member. India and the EaEu are set to start negotiations in this regard soon.<\/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 offered to strengthen India&#8217;s development partnership with Armenia as per interest and needs of Armenia. A large number of Armenian candidates benefit from training programmes conducted by India under the Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) programme.<\/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 Pashinyan briefed Prime Minister on the new inititatives of openness of his government and in that context invited Indian investments in Armenia. Referring to popularity of Indian culture, films, music and Yoga, Prime Minister Pashinyan called for greater cultural and humanitarian cooperation between the two countries.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan on the sidelines of the High Level Segment of the 74th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York on Wednesday. Both sides reviewed the bilateral relations between the two countries and expressed satisfaction at their steady growth. Recalling the historical linkages going back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":315255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,53],"tags":[316,11824,5165],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315254"}],"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=315254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315256,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315254\/revisions\/315256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/315255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}