{"id":17,"date":"2017-11-25T06:55:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-25T06:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tukhabartimes.com\/?p=17"},"modified":"2017-11-25T06:55:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-25T06:55:09","slug":"indian-foreign-minister-to-attend-sco-summit-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/?p=17","title":{"rendered":"Indian foreign minister to attend SCO Summit in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"popPara\">NEW DELHI, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) &#8212; Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will attend the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Russia, the ministry announced here on Thursday.<br \/>\n&#8220;Swaraj will be representing India at the SCO summit in Russia&#8217;s Sochi city on November 30 and December 1,&#8221; Indian External Affairs Ministry spokesman Raveesh Kumar told media Thursday.<br \/>\nThe minister will also have bilateral meetings with several leaders on the sidelines of the summit and attend a reception to be hosted by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, he said. &#8220;We attach special significance to the SCO in promoting political, economic and people-to-people contacts,&#8221; the spokesman said.<br \/>\nIndia had been an observer at SCO since 2005 and became a full member in June this year. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed this year&#8217;s summit in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan. Enditem<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) &#8212; Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will attend the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Russia, the ministry announced here on Thursday. &#8220;Swaraj will be representing India at the SCO summit in Russia&#8217;s Sochi city on November 30 and December 1,&#8221; Indian External Affairs Ministry spokesman Raveesh Kumar told media Thursday. The minister will also have bilateral meetings with several leaders on the sidelines of the summit and attend a reception to be hosted by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, he said. &#8220;We attach special significance to the SCO in promoting political, economic and people-to-people contacts,&#8221; the spokesman said. India had been an observer at SCO since 2005 and became a full member in June this year. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed this year&#8217;s summit in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan. Enditem<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}