{"id":31442,"date":"2018-10-27T14:04:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T08:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=31442"},"modified":"2018-10-27T14:04:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T08:34:17","slug":"sushma-takes-part-in-saudi-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sushma-takes-part-in-saudi-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Sushma takes part in Saudi festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/sushma-takes-part-in-saudi-festival\/article22684254.ece\"><b>Sushma takes part in Saudi festival<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on 7<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> February participated in the national festival of Saudi Arabia and held bilateral discussions with the Saudi royals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>About the Festival:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Al Janadria<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the national cultural festival of Saudi Arabia<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The festival began in 1985 under the patronage of the ruling monarch<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2018 marks the 32nd edition of the festival<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is organised every year by the Saudi National Guard<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A primary goal of this festival is to highlight Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Islamic identity, display its national heritage and help preserve it for generations to come.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It also aims to acquaint its people with the cultures of other countries. For this purpose, every year the country nominates a &#8220;Guest of Honour&#8221; at its festival.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The festival has India as the &#8216;Guest of Honour&#8217; country this year<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Discussions with Saudi Arabia:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The invitation to India for this prestigious festival is a testament to the growing relationship between Saudi Arabia and India.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wide range of bilateral, regional and global issues of mutual interest was discussed<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">External Affairs Minister of India also reaffirmed India\u2019s support to peace in the region and called for collective efforts in fighting the menace of terrorism<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sushma takes part in Saudi festival Context: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on 7th February participated in the national festival of Saudi Arabia and held bilateral discussions with the Saudi royals. About the Festival: Al Janadria is the national cultural festival of Saudi Arabia The festival began in 1985 under the patronage of the ruling&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sushma-takes-part-in-saudi-festival\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sushma takes part in Saudi festival<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704578194},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}