{"id":25638,"date":"2020-12-13T06:06:03","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T21:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/12\/israel-establishes-formal-diplomatic-relations-with-bhutan"},"modified":"2020-12-13T06:06:03","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T21:06:03","slug":"israel-establishes-formal-diplomatic-relations-with-bhutan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25638","title":{"rendered":"Israel establishes &#8216;formal diplomatic relations&#8217; with Bhutan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Himalayan kingdom is latest country to recognise the Jewish state in a normalisation deal<\/p>\n<p>Israel established diplomatic relations with the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan on Saturday, the Israeli foreign ministry said, in the latest of a string of normalisation deals agreed by the Jewish state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe circle of recognition of Israel is widening,\u201d the Israeli foreign minister, Gabi Ashkenazi, said in a statement. \u201cThe establishment of relations with the Kingdom of Bhutan will constitute a new stage in the deepening of Israel\u2019s relations in Asia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/12\/israel-establishes-formal-diplomatic-relations-with-bhutan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Himalayan kingdom is latest country to recognise the Jewish state in a normalisation dealIsrael established diplomatic relations with the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan on Saturday, the Israeli foreign ministry said, in the latest of a string of normalisa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1247,1786,59,588,1005,212,61,1787,84,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-benjamin-netanyahu","category-bhutan","category-global-development","category-globalisation","category-israel","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-south-and-central-asia","category-trade-and-development","category-united-nations","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25639,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25638\/revisions\/25639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}