{"id":316330,"date":"2019-11-04T06:12:33","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T06:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=316330"},"modified":"2019-11-04T06:12:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T06:12:33","slug":"pm-modi-to-participate-in-east-asia-and-rcep-summit-in-bangkok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-modi-to-participate-in-east-asia-and-rcep-summit-in-bangkok\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi to participate in East Asia and RCEP Summit in Bangkok"},"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-310353 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/modi-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/modi-10.jpg 528w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/modi-10-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/>Prime Minister Narendra Modi will participate in the East Asia and RCEP summits in Bangkok today before he returns to Delhi tonight.<\/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 would be steering India\u2019s negotiations at the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or the RCEP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">RCEP is a comprehensive free trade agreement being negotiated between the 10 ASEAN Member States and ASEAN&#8217;s free trade agreement partners Australia, China, India, Japan, Korea and New Zealand.<\/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 sought to dispel the notion that India is as reluctant to join the RCEP trade deal. In a detailed interview to Bangkok Post he said, India remains committed to a comprehensive and balanced outcome from the ongoing RCEP negotiations, but India would like a win-win outcome.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He added that addressing India&#8217;s concerns over unsustainable trade deficits is important.<\/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 expressed that a mutually beneficial RCEP, in which all sides gain reasonably, is in interests of India and of all partners in the negotiation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">RCEP negotiations which began in Cambodia in 2012 covers areas, including trade in goods and services, investment, market access, economic cooperation, intellectual property and e-commerce.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi will participate in the East Asia and RCEP summits in Bangkok today before he returns to Delhi tonight. Prime Minister would be steering India\u2019s negotiations at the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or the RCEP. RCEP is a comprehensive free trade agreement being negotiated between the 10 ASEAN Member States and ASEAN&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316330"}],"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=316330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316331,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316330\/revisions\/316331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}