{"id":320017,"date":"2020-02-15T03:48:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T03:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=320017"},"modified":"2020-02-15T04:53:45","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T04:53:45","slug":"looking-forward-to-india-visit-says-us-president-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/looking-forward-to-india-visit-says-us-president-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Looking forward&#8217; to India visit, says US President Donald Trump"},"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=\"size-full wp-image-305881 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/trump.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/trump.jpg 800w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/trump-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/trump-768x478.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/trump-696x433.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/trump-675x420.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>US President Donald Trump on Saturday said that he is looking forward to going to India in two weeks to meet with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cGreat honor, I think? Mark Zuckerberg recently stated that \u201cDonald J. Trump is Number 1 on Facebook. Number 2 is Prime Minister Modi of India.\u201d Actually, I am going to India in two weeks. Looking forward to it!,\u201d President Trump tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi had earlier s<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">aid that he was extremely delighted that US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump will visit India on February 24 and 25.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">PM Modi said, \u201cIndia will accord a memorable welcome to our esteemed guests. This visit is a very special one and it will go a long way in further cementing India-USA friendship.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump will be in India on a two-day visit on February 24 and 25.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cDuring the visit, President Trump and the First Lady will attend official engagements in New Delhi and Ahmedabad, Gujarat, and interact with a wide cross-section of Indian society Ministry of External Affairs had said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The global strategic partnership between India and the US is based on trust, shared values, mutual respect and understanding, and marked by warmth and friendship between the peoples of the two countries. The relationship has further evolved under the leadership of Prime Minister Modi and President Trump, with significant progress in all areas including trade, defence, counter-terrorism, energy, coordination on regional and global issues as well as people-to-people ties, the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The visit will provide an opportunity for the two leaders to review progress in bilateral ties and further strengthen our strategic partnership.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump on Saturday said that he is looking forward to going to India in two weeks to meet with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. \u201cGreat honor, I think? Mark Zuckerberg recently stated that \u201cDonald J. Trump is Number 1 on Facebook. Number 2 is Prime Minister Modi of India.\u201d Actually, I am going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":305881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,53],"tags":[64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320017"}],"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=320017"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320020,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320017\/revisions\/320020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}