{"id":1230,"date":"2022-02-14T11:40:28","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T11:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbecanberra\/?p=1230"},"modified":"2022-02-14T11:40:28","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T11:40:28","slug":"speech-as-guest-speaker-at-the-graduation-ceremony-of-the-college-of-asia-and-the-pacific-australian-national-university-on-wednesday-9th-february-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbecanberra\/speech-as-guest-speaker-at-the-graduation-ceremony-of-the-college-of-asia-and-the-pacific-australian-national-university-on-wednesday-9th-february-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Speech as Guest Speaker at the graduation ceremony of the College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, on Wednesday, 9th February 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Councillor, Vice-Chancellor, other members of the Executive, academic and professional staff, graduates and guests,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I would like to begin by acknowledging the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we meet today. I also pay respects to Elders past, present and emerging, and I extend that respect to any Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people present.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To be invited to speak to you, 16 years after my graduation from this world renowned institution, is indeed a great honor for my country, Bhutan, and for me personally. And for this, I\u2019m deeply grateful to the College of Asia and the Pacific.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbecanberra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Speech-at-ANU.pdf\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Councillor, Vice-Chancellor, other members of the Executive, academic and professional staff, graduates and guests, I would like to begin by acknowledging the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we meet today. I also pay respects to Elders past, present and emerging, and I extend that respect to any Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbecanberra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbecanberra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbecanberra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbecanberra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbecanberra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbecanberra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1232,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbecanberra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions\/1232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbecanberra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbecanberra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.bt\/rbecanberra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}