{"id":149043,"date":"2024-10-07T10:24:06","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T10:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/07\/india-first-responder-for-maldives-pm-modi-meets-prez-muizzu-promises-to-strengthen-ties\/"},"modified":"2024-10-07T10:24:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T10:24:06","slug":"india-first-responder-for-maldives-pm-modi-meets-prez-muizzu-promises-to-strengthen-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/07\/india-first-responder-for-maldives-pm-modi-meets-prez-muizzu-promises-to-strengthen-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"India \u2018first responder\u2019 for Maldives: PM Modi meets Prez Muizzu, promises to strengthen ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1070\" height=\"580\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/img.etimg.com\/thumb\/msid-114010948,width-1070,height-580,overlay-economictimes\/photo.jpg?resize=1070,580&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"India \u2018first responder\u2019 for Maldives: PM Modi meets Prez Muizzu, promises to strengthen ties\" title=\"India \u2018first responder\u2019 for Maldives: PM Modi meets Prez Muizzu, promises to strengthen ties\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>PM Modi met Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu and underlined New Delhi&#8217;s position as a &#8220;close friend&#8221; of the island nation, emphasising his &#8216;neighbourhood first&#8217; foreign policy that has seen India act as a &#8216;first responder&#8217; to financial and medical emergencies affecting Male, including supplying its nearly six lakh people with Covid vaccines during the pandemic. The Maldivian leader said he also hopes to conclude a free trade agreement with India, intending to increase investment in his country. The Indian government has already helped set up a substantial drinking water and sewerage facility in the Maldives and is also helping build road infrastructure. Muizzu is on a five-day India visit and was accorded a ceremonial reception at the Rashtrapati Bhavan earlier today. PM Modi and Muizzu also virtually inaugurated a new runway at Hanimadhoo Airport in the Maldives.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"read_more\"> Show more<\/span><span class=\"read_less hidden\"> Show less<\/span><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/india-first-responder-for-maldives-pm-modi-meets-prez-muizzu-promises-to-strengthen-ties\/videoshow\/114010948.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM Modi met Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu and underlined New Delhi&#8217;s position as a &#8220;close friend&#8221; of the island nation, emphasising his &#8216;neighbourhood first&#8217; foreign policy that has seen India act as a &#8216;first responder&#8217; to financial and medical emergencies affecting Male, including supplying its nearly six lakh people with Covid vaccines during the pandemic. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/thumb\/msid-114010948,width-1070,height-580,overlay-economictimes\/photo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[118053,118052,41377,273,47866,4284,4283,1378,1686,29548,2910,3129,118051,16767,6701,16198,30286,3813],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149045,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149043\/revisions\/149045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}