{"id":37335,"date":"2018-07-26T11:09:17","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T11:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=37335"},"modified":"2018-07-26T11:09:17","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T11:09:17","slug":"prime-minister-narendra-modi-to-address-brics-summit-in-south-africa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/prime-minister-narendra-modi-to-address-brics-summit-in-south-africa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Narendra Modi to address BRICS Summit in South Africa today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Prime Minister Narendra Modi was accorded a warm welcome as he arrived in South Africa on a three-day visit to attend the BRICS Summit hosted by South Africa.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PM Modi arrived from Uganda&#8217;s capital Kampala, the first bilateral tour by an Indian Prime Minister since 1997.<\/p>\n<p>He will participate in the BRICS Summit, whose theme this year is &#8216;BRICS in Africa&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>PM Modi will attend the 10th edition of the BRICS Summit in Johannesburg, during which the grouping&#8217;s leaders are expected to deliberate on global hot-spot issues, international peace and security, global governance and trade issues among others.<\/p>\n<p>He is also expected to meet several leaders including Chinese President Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n<p>BRICS is a grouping of five major emerging economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Originally the first four were grouped as &#8220;BRIC&#8221;, before the induction of South Africa in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s relations with South Africa date back several centuries. India was at the forefront of the international community in its support to the anti-apartheid movement. This year marks 25 years since the resumption of India&#8217;s diplomatic relations with South Africa in 1993. This year also marks the 125th year of the Pietermaritzburg railway station &#8216;incident&#8217; involving Mahatma Gandhi.<\/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>Prime Minister Narendra Modi was accorded a warm welcome as he arrived in South Africa on a three-day visit to attend the BRICS Summit hosted by South Africa. PM Modi arrived from Uganda&#8217;s capital Kampala, the first bilateral tour by an Indian Prime Minister since 1997. He will participate in the BRICS Summit, whose theme [&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":37336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312,315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37335","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\/37335","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=37335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37337,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37335\/revisions\/37337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}