{"id":744708,"date":"2013-04-02T17:33:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T21:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=38aad0723ede56403445f980cfd3e74c"},"modified":"2013-04-02T17:33:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T21:33:00","slug":"president-obama-meets-with-prime-minister-lee-of-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/744708","title":{"rendered":"President Obama Meets with Prime Minister Lee of Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"embed\">\n\t\n<div class=\"clearfix\" id=\"small-node-embed-image-detail\">\n  <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/embedded_img_small\/image\/image_file\/p040213lj-0271.jpg?resize=430%2C286\" alt=\"President Barack Obama delivers remarks with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of the Republic of Singapore\" title=\"President Barack Obama delivers remarks with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of the Republic of Singapore\" width=\"430\" height=\"286\" class=\"imagecache imagecache-embedded_img_small\" \/>  <p>\n    President Barack Obama delivers remarks with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of the Republic of Singapore prior to a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office, April 2, 2013. \n\n    \n        \n                  \n              \n    (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson)  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2013\/04\/02\/remarks-president-obama-and-prime-minister-lee-singapore-bilateral-meeti\">bilateral meeting today with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore<\/a>, President Obama reaffirmed America&#39;s commitment to a secure and prosperous Asia-Pacific region, and thanked Prime Minster Lee for being &ldquo;an outstanding partner for us on the international stage.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to close military cooperation between the two countries that allows the United States to maintain an effective presence the Pacific, Singapore is also a strong economic partner.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Over the last decade, since we signed our free trade agreement, we have seen a doubling of trade between our countries, and that creates jobs here in the United States as well as in Singapore,&rdquo; the President said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/04\/02\/president-obama-meets-prime-minister-lee-singapore\" >read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama delivers remarks with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of the Republic of Singapore prior to a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office, April 2, 2013. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson) In a bilateral meeting today with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore, President Obama reaffirmed America&#39;s commitment to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-37Jq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}