{"id":11897,"date":"2012-06-28T00:00:06","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T22:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/factbox-major-political-handshakes\/"},"modified":"2012-06-28T00:00:06","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T22:00:06","slug":"factbox-major-political-handshakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/factbox-major-political-handshakes\/","title":{"rendered":"FACTBOX-Major political handshakes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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June 27<\/span> (Reuters) – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth shook the hand
\nof former IRA guerrilla commander Martin McGuinness for the
\nfirst time on Wednesday, drawing a line under a conflict in
\nNorthern Ireland that cost the lives of thousands of soldiers
\nand civilians.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is a look at some of the most significant political
\nhandshakes of the last 40 years:<\/p>\n

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February 21, 1972 – President Richard Nixon makes the first
\nvisit by an American president to China, symbolically ending
\ndecades of hostility by shaking hands with Premier Zhou Enlai.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

March 26, 1979 – Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and
\nEgyptian President Anwar Sadat shake hands at the White House to
\nseal the first peace treaty between the Jewish state and an Arab
\ncountry.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Dec. 13, 1989 – South African black anti-apartheid leader
\nNelson Mandela leaves jail temporarily to meet President F.W. de
\nKlerk, their handshake marking the beginning of the end of
\nracist apartheid rule.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

June 13, 2000 – The leaders of communist North Korea and
\ncapitalist South Korea meet for the first time since Korea was
\nseparated in 1948. Kim Jong-il and South Korean President Kim
\nDae-jung shske hands courteously but with little obvious warmth.
\nTwelve years on, the Cold War standoff on the inter-Korean
\nborder continues.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

March 25, 2004 – Britain’s Tony Blair seals Libya’s return
\nto the world community with a handshake with Muammar Gaddafi.
\nGaddafi was overthrown by his people in 2011.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

April 29, 2005 – Taiwanese opposition leader Lien Chan,
\nchairman of the party that ruled China for decades until it was
\ntoppled by Mao Zedong’s communists and fled to Taiwan in 1949,
\ncloses the book on decades of enmity by shaking the hand of
\nChinese President Hu Jintao in Beijing’s Great Hall of the
\nPeople.<\/p>\n

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June 2012 – Queen Elizabeth shakes hands with McGuinness in
\na Belfast theatre, the latest milestone in decades of work to
\nreconcile Catholic nationalists seeking unity with the Irish
\nRepublic and Protestant Unionists determined to remain part of
\nBritain.
\n (Reporting by David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit;
\nEditing by Kevin Liffey) <\/p>\n

(Editing by Kevin Liffey)<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

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\t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

June 27 (Reuters) – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth shook the hand of former IRA guerrilla commander Martin McGuinness for the first time on Wednesday, drawing a line under a conflict in Northern Ireland that cost the lives of thousands of soldiers and civilians. Here is a look at some of the most significant political handshakes of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-11897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}