{"id":79282,"date":"2017-02-27T13:45:15","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T13:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=3622cee55b070e581ee4c51c0beb0465"},"modified":"2017-02-27T13:45:15","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T13:45:15","slug":"speech-liam-fox-speech-welcoming-indian-finance-minister-arun-jaitley-to-the-london-stock-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=79282","title":{"rendered":"Speech: Liam Fox speech welcoming Indian Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley, to the London Stock Exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Minister Jaitley, it\u2019s a pleasure to see you again and to welcome you here for your visit to launch the UK \/ India Year of Culture, as part of India\u2019s independence celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>It is an important opportunity to strengthen the economic and cultural ties between our countries.<\/p>\n<p>The UK &#8211; India investment relationship is hugely important.<\/p>\n<p>India is now the third largest investor and second largest job creator in the UK; the UK is the largest G20 investor in India and plays an important role in building skills in the Indian workforce.<\/p>\n<p>And the UK government is committed to deepening this relationship further.<\/p>\n<p>In my first months as Secretary of State for International Trade, I\u2019ve been lucky enough to visit India twice &#8211; most recently accompanying the Prime Minister on her first bilateral visit outside Europe, as well as her first trade delegation.<\/p>\n<p>In the words of Prime Minister Modi, India and the UK are an \u2018unbeatable partnership\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>And I\u2019m very glad that our Prime Ministers recently committed to \u2018building the closest possible commercial and economic relationship\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Trade Secretary, Dr Liam Fox, speech at the London Stock Exchange 27 February 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}