{"id":1098,"date":"2014-11-22T06:34:48","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T06:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2014-11-22T06:34:48","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T06:34:48","slug":"obama-accepts-modi-invite-2015-republic-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/?p=1098","title":{"rendered":"Obama accepts Modi Invite, to come for 2015 Republic Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/obama1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1099 aligncenter\" alt=\"obama\" src=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/obama1-300x171.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/obama1-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/obama1-128x72.jpg 128w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/obama1.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>US President Barack Obama has accepted Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s invite to be chief guest for the 2015 Republic Day, and will be the first US president to grace the occasion as chief guest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have now received a confirmation through diplomatic channels of President Obama agreeing to come to India as the 1st US President for a Republic Day function as the Chief Guest,&#8221; external affairs ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>He said the &#8220;prime minister had a very successful visit to USA earlier during the year in September. Following this, as a personal initiative, he did extend an invitation to President Obama to be the Chief Guest of our next Republic Day celebrations during a diplomatic conversation&#8221;. &#8220;Following that diplomatic conversation which the Prime Minister had with President Obama, a letter was sent in writing, formalizing that invitation,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>With Obama confirming he would attend, he would become the first US president to come to India a second time during his term of office. &#8220;We will now look forward to this development which stems from the initiative of our PM, which followed their bilateral meeting in Washington,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking the news, Modi had tweeted: &#8220;This Republic Day, we hope to have a friend over&#8230;invited President Obama to be the 1st US President to grace the occasion as Chief Guest.&#8221; The invitation to Obama comes weeks after Modi&#8217;s hugely successful visit to the US. Modi and Obama also met on the sidelines of G20 summit in Brisbane Nov 14.<\/p>\n<p>Obama had called Modi a &#8220;man of action&#8221;. This will be Obama&#8217;s second visit to India. He had visited India in 2010 at the invitation of then prime minister Manmohan Singh and addressed a joint session of parliament.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"AdnBottom\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Barack Obama has accepted Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s invite to be chief guest for the 2015 Republic Day, and will be the first US president to grace the occasion as chief guest. &#8220;We have now received a confirmation through diplomatic channels of President Obama agreeing to come to India as the 1st US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1100,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions\/1100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}