{"id":5606,"date":"2015-07-08T10:58:41","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T10:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=5606"},"modified":"2015-07-08T10:58:41","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T10:58:41","slug":"peter-mutharika-commends-cooperating-partners-for-developing-malawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2015\/07\/08\/peter-mutharika-commends-cooperating-partners-for-developing-malawi\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Mutharika commends cooperating partners for developing Malawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Peter Mutharika has commended Malawi\u2019s multilateral and bilateral cooperating partners for standing with the country despite the hard times Malawians are going through.<\/p>\n<p>Mutharika made the remarks at Sanjika Palace in Blantyre during a state banquet he hosted in honour of Zambian president Edgar Lungu, Kenyan Vice- President William Ruto and former Mozambican president Joachim Chissano who, among other foreign and local dignitaries, graced Malawi\u2019s 51st Independence Anniversary celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMalawi attaches great importance to the friendship and cooperation which have developed between our friendly peoples, which in turn have positively affected our relations on bilateral and multilateral levels,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mutharika said the excellent bilateral relations also apply to Malawi\u2019s relations with Kenya and Mozambique.<\/p>\n<p>Mutharika said the theme of this year\u2019s independence celebrations which is \u2018Towards Economic Transformation and Inclusive Economic Development in Malawi\u2019, is in line with the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government\u2019s desire and vision to develop Malawi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish, therefore, to encourage all Malawians to be united, work hard and be patriotic in developing Malawi as no one will develop our country except ourselves,\u201d said Mutharika.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Peter Mutharika has commended Malawi\u2019s multilateral and bilateral cooperating partners for standing with the country despite the hard times Malawians are going through. Mutharika made the remarks at Sanjika Palace in Blantyre during a state banquet he hosted in honour of Zambian president Edgar Lungu, Kenyan Vice- President William Ruto and former Mozambican president [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5611,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5606\/revisions\/5611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}