{"id":329586,"date":"2020-12-16T08:04:46","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T08:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=329586"},"modified":"2020-12-16T08:04:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T08:04:46","slug":"uk-foreign-secretary-dominic-raab-calls-on-pm-modi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/uk-foreign-secretary-dominic-raab-calls-on-pm-modi\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab calls on PM Modi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-329587 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/pm-modi-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"487\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/pm-modi-1.jpg 487w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/pm-modi-1-270x300.jpg 270w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/pm-modi-1-378x420.jpg 378w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 487px) 100vw, 487px\" \/>UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Wednesday called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cExcellent meeting with @DominicRaab, UK Secretary of State of @FCDOGovUK. Discussed the vast potential of the India-UK partnership in the post-COVID, post-BREXIT world. Looking forward to next month&#8217;s visit by PM @BorisJohnson as Chief Guest at our Republic Day celebrations,\u201d PM Modi tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Anurag Srivastava in a tweet said, \u201cUK Foreign Secretary @DominicRaab called on PM @narendramodi. Discussions covered various facets of our strategic partnership.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Recalling his recent telephone conversation with Prime Minister Boris Johnson, PM Modi stressed the importance of the India-UK partnership in the post-COVID world. He called for an ambitious and outcome-oriented 360-degree roadmap covering trade and investment, defence and security, migration and mobility, education, energy, climate change and health, in order to tap the full potential of the bilateral relationship, according to the official release.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Foreign Secretary Raab conveyed the greetings of Prime Minister Boris Johnson to PM Modi and thanked the Prime Minister for participating in the recently held Climate Ambition Summit co-hosted by the UK.\u00a0 He also stressed the priority that the UK Government attaches to elevating relations with India, based on shared values and interests and the potential to address common global challenges together, the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Foreign Secretary Raab took the opportunity to hand over a letter from Prime Minister Boris Johnson, inviting the Prime Minister to the G7 meeting to be chaired by the UK in 2021.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Prime Minister thanked him and accepted the invitation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Wednesday called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.\u00a0 \u201cExcellent meeting with @DominicRaab, UK Secretary of State of @FCDOGovUK. Discussed the vast potential of the India-UK partnership in the post-COVID, post-BREXIT world. Looking forward to next month&#8217;s visit by PM @BorisJohnson as Chief Guest at our Republic Day celebrations,\u201d PM Modi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":329587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[13792,316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329586"}],"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=329586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329588,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329586\/revisions\/329588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/329587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}