{"id":155201,"date":"2021-12-10T11:07:40","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T03:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=155201"},"modified":"2021-12-10T11:07:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T03:07:40","slug":"un-chief-accepts-invitation-to-attend-beijing-winter-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=155201","title":{"rendered":"UN chief accepts invitation to attend Beijing Winter Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" id=\"1639099160530\"><img src=\"http:\/\/images.china.cn\/site1007\/2021-12\/10\/6db12990-3921-461f-acb7-f443c36670fd.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"\/><figcaption>United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>UNITED NATIONS, Dec 10 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has accepted an invitation to attend the Beijing Winter Olympics in February 2022, said his spokesman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The secretary-general received an invitation from the International Olympic Committee to attend the Beijing Winter Games and he has accepted it,&#8221; said Stephane Dujarric, the spokesman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guterres&#8217;s two immediate predecessors have attended almost every Olympic Games since at least 2002 when Kofi Annan went to Salt Lake City, he noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;And, I mean, I&#8217;m just going back to my time (as spokesman of the UN secretary-general). There was a time before me, as well,&#8221; Dujarric told a regular press briefing. &#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNITED NATIONS, Dec 10 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has accepted an invitation to attend the Beijing Winter Olympics in February 2022, said his spokesman. &#8220;The secretary-general received an invitation from the International Olympic Committee to attend the Beijing Winter Games and he has accepted it,&#8221; said Stephane Dujarric, the spokesman. Guterres&#8217;s two immediate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":155203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,215],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155201"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/155203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}