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Hope developmental projects are not affected in Myanmar: Jaishankar
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When asked if the coup will affect India as there are reports that armed groups from Myanmar are taking shelter in India, Jaishankar said: “These are early days. We see development projects address the needs of the people. Needs of the people are needs of the people. I hope that developmental projects are not affected.”
Agencies
Jaishankar along with Ambassador of Japan to India, Satoshi Suzuki was in Guwahati to participate in a programme on Act East policy on Monday.
GUWAHATI: With neighbouring Myanmar witnessing military coup, Union External Affairs Minister Dr. S Jaishankar said that he hoped that developmental projects are not affected.
Highlights
The visit, in the works for some time, will be the first foreign visit of the top Indian diplomat in 2021.
The focus will be on the India-Russia annual summit in 2021, with Russian President Vladimir Putin s India visit.
Russia and India have an annual bilateral summit level mechanism that alternates between the two countries.
New Delhi: India s Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla will visit Russia next week and this visit will be for a couple of days which will see a number of bilateral meetings. The visit comes even as both sides have been engaged at multiple levels, from cooperation against COVID-19 pandemic to defence.
Comments
Union External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday, 6 February, expressed concerns over the toolkit tweet by Swedish Climate Activist Greta Thunberg, which is now being probed by Delhi police. The Minister said, It revealed a lot. We have to see what else comes out, he said to news agency
ANI.
Justifying the action taken by Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) against the tweets by international celebrities in relation to the farm protests, Jaishankar said, You see there was a reason why the foreign ministry reacted to the statements that some celebrities gave out, for whatever the reason, on matters which obviously they didn t know very much, reported news agency ANI.