External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday said he is confident that the relevance of the Quad grouping would grow and it would become a bigger factor in the larger regional, and beyond the region, politics and policy.
Elaborating on the challenges faced by the country during COVID-19, S Jaishankar said that India entered the pandemic as a country of "worry" and ended it as a country of "contribution" by providing vaccines to hundreds of countries.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said India started the "Neighbourhood First" policy as its relations with other countries are not transactional.
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday met newly-appointed Bangladesh Foreign Minister Mohammed Hasan Mahmud here and hailed the bilateral relations, which are "growing from strength to strength."
In a significant move to deepen cultural ties, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar announced that the Government of India has decided to include Farsi (Persian) as one of the nine classical languages in India under the New Education Policy.