{"id":9971,"date":"2019-09-28T10:17:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T05:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=9971"},"modified":"2019-09-28T10:17:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T05:17:01","slug":"indias-modi-dodges-mention-of-kashmir-in-un-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/9971","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s Modi Dodges Mention of Kashmir in UN Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the U.N. meeting with a speech that focused primarily on his country&#8217;s development, though he warned of the spreading specter of terrorism. He never mentioned Kashmir directly.<\/p>\n<p>Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi broadly denounced &#8220;terrorism&#8221; at the United Nations but avoided any direct mention of Kashmir, where 7 million people have been put under an unprecedented security lockdown since August 5.<\/p>\n<p>Modi told world leaders gathered at the annual UN General Assembly that India&#8217;s &#8220;voice against terrorism &#8230; rings with seriousness and outrage&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We belong to a country that has given the world, not war, but Buddha&#8217;s message of peace,&#8221; said Modi. &#8220;And that is the reason why, our voice against terrorism, to alert the world about this evil, rings with seriousness and the outrage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Modi has defended the Kashmir changes as freeing the territory from separatism. His supporters have welcomed the move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the U.N. meeting with a speech that focused primarily on his country&#8217;s development, though he warned of the spreading specter of terrorism. He never mentioned Kashmir directly. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi broadly denounced &#8220;terrorism&#8221; at the United Nations but avoided any direct mention of Kashmir, where 7 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9973,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9971\/revisions\/9973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}