{"id":287873,"date":"2017-01-25T07:07:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T07:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=287873"},"modified":"2017-01-25T07:07:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T07:07:42","slug":"us-president-donald-trump-invites-narendra-modi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=287873","title":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump invites Narendra Modi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">US President Donald Trump has invited India&#8217;s Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit the United States after a phone call between the two leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Washington said Mr Trump saw India as a &#8220;true friend and partner in addressing challenges around the world&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The two discussed opportunities to strengthen the partnership between the US and India in broad areas such as the economy and defence,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Modi said he had &#8220;also invited President Trump to visit India&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/858D\/production\/_93798143_901560e9-fc0c-424d-bb46-6ff31842e367.jpg\" alt=\"Had a warm conversation with President @realDonaldTrump late last evening.\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/D3AD\/production\/_93798145_368c40c5-1b87-4a0f-bf59-e736b8547f34.jpg\" alt=\"President @realDonaldTrump and I agreed to work closely in the coming days to further strengthen our bilateral ties.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The White House said it looked forward to welcoming Mr Modi later this year.<\/p>\n<p>The US statement added that Mr Trump and Mr Modi resolved to &#8220;stand shoulder to shoulder in the global fight against terrorism&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Modi had congratulated Trump after his election win in November, saying he appreciated his &#8220;friendship&#8221; with India.<\/p>\n<p>During the US election campaign, Mr Trump wooed Indian-American voters and was largely positive about India.<\/p>\n<p>He praised Mr Modi for championing bureaucratic reform and economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has invited India&#8217;s Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit the United States after a phone call between the two leaders. Washington said Mr Trump saw India as a &#8220;true friend and partner in addressing challenges around the world&#8221;. &#8220;The two discussed opportunities to strengthen the partnership between the US and India [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[3399,3400,3401],"class_list":["post-287873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","tag-india-pm","tag-modi","tag-trump-invite-modi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}