{"id":1333,"date":"2024-08-26T06:20:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T06:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swisspresse.com\/swiss-ambassador-at-idea-exchange-india-is-influencing-world-affairs-its-role-is-bigger-than-neutrality-idea-exchange-news\/"},"modified":"2024-08-26T06:20:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T06:20:10","slug":"swiss-ambassador-at-idea-exchange-india-is-influencing-world-affairs-its-role-is-bigger-than-neutrality-idea-exchange-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swisspresse.com\/en\/swiss-ambassador-at-idea-exchange-india-is-influencing-world-affairs-its-role-is-bigger-than-neutrality-idea-exchange-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Ambassador at Idea Exchange: \u2018India is influencing world affairs\u2026 Its role is bigger than neutrality\u2019 | Idea Exchange News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Swiss Ambassador Ralf Heckner on India\u2019s role in the ongoing conflict in Europe, navigating the Middle East crisis, and the Free Trade Agreement. The conversation was moderated by Shubhajit Roy, Diplomatic Editor, The Indian Express<\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/data.indianexpress.com\/election2019\/track_1x1.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/data.indianexpress.com\/election2019\/track_1x1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1px\" height=\"1px\" style=\"display:none;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>With COVID, there was no connectivity and there were no flights. So connectivity was established a year-and-a-half after it was interrupted, and now we are waiting for India to fly to Switzerland. We have been administering more visas last year than before COVID, and this year we may go up to 2,20,000 visas. That means every third or fourth visa that the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/idea-exchange\/swiss-ambassador-at-idea-exchange-india-is-influencing-world-affairs-its-role-is-bigger-than-neutrality-9533038\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swiss Ambassador Ralf Heckner on India\u2019s role in the ongoing conflict in Europe, navigating the Middle East crisis, and the Free Trade Agreement. The conversation was moderated by Shubhajit Roy, Diplomatic Editor, The Indian Express With COVID, there was no connectivity and there were no flights. So connectivity was established a year-and-a-half after it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-switzerland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swisspresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swisspresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swisspresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swisspresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swisspresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swisspresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swisspresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swisspresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swisspresse.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}