{"id":34745,"date":"2018-06-20T12:28:28","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T12:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=34745"},"modified":"2018-06-20T12:28:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T12:28:28","slug":"president-ram-nath-kovind-addresses-business-forum-in-athens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/president-ram-nath-kovind-addresses-business-forum-in-athens\/","title":{"rendered":"President Ram Nath Kovind addresses business forum in Athens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The President said that India is committed to world peace. He said that India sees peace not just as the absence of conflict but as a reflection of sustainable development and indeed of any effort that anticipates and prevents strife and suffering.<\/p>\n<p>President Ram Nath Kovind, addressed a gathering of diplomats, policymakers and academics in Athens today on the subject \u201cIndia and Europe in a Changing World\u201d. The event was organised by the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy a leading foreign policy think tank in Greece and in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The President said that India is committed to world peace. He said that India sees peace not just as the absence of conflict but as a reflection of sustainable development and indeed of any effort that anticipates and prevents strife and suffering<\/p>\n<p>President said that radicalisation and terrorism are pressing global concerns. Pockets of instability and extremism can be found in the region to Europe\u2019s east and India\u2019s west. They are a worry for both Europe and India.<\/p>\n<p>Promotion of terrorism by state and non-state actors; extremism in a variety of forms and rooted in senseless hate; the proliferation of sensitive weapons; the use of regular communication and financial channels by terror groups these pose a challenge to not one nation or the other but to all humanity.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, the President addressed the India Greek Business Forum meeting in Athens.Speaking on the occasion, the President said that India-Greek bilateral trade at US Dollars 530 million is way below its potential.<\/p>\n<p>With some efforts this can easily be made to cross US Dollars 1 billion in the next few years and India is keen to take lead in this effort.The President said that there are clear complementarities between the Indian and Greek economies.<\/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>The President said that India is committed to world peace. He said that India sees peace not just as the absence of conflict but as a reflection of sustainable development and indeed of any effort that anticipates and prevents strife and suffering. President Ram Nath Kovind, addressed a gathering of diplomats, policymakers and academics in [&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":34747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312,315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34745","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=34745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34748,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34745\/revisions\/34748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}