{"id":23360,"date":"2018-02-28T11:33:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T11:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=23360"},"modified":"2018-02-28T11:33:42","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T11:33:42","slug":"maldives-says-no-to-indias-milan-invite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/maldives-says-no-to-indias-milan-invite\/","title":{"rendered":"Maldives says no to India\u2019s \u2018Milan\u2019 invite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi,<br \/>\nMaldives has declined India\u2019s invitation to participate in the eight-day mega naval exercise Milan beginning March 6, in what is seen as a \u201cdiplomatic snub\u201d to New Delhi, which has been critical of the imposition of emergency in the Indian Ocean island nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaldives was invited to join the exercise but they have declined,\u201d Navy Chief Admiral Sunil Lanba said.<\/p>\n<p>The Maldives embassy in New Delhi issued a statement: \u201cMaldives is unable to participate&#8230; due to the current circumstances of a state of emergency. During such a time especially, security personnel are expected to be at a heightened stance of readiness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Maldives and India enjoy a long history of excellent defence and military cooperation and it is a tradition that we are confident that will endure and continue indefinitely.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Maldives has declined India\u2019s invitation to participate in the eight-day mega naval exercise Milan beginning March 6, in what is seen as a \u201cdiplomatic snub\u201d to New Delhi, which has been critical of the imposition of emergency in the Indian Ocean island nation. \u201cMaldives was invited to join the exercise but they have [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23362,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23360\/revisions\/23362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}