Shashi Tharoor said India must go for a more pragmatic approach than outrage.
New Delhi:
The US Navy s Seventh Fleet did nothing illegal by holding operations in India s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) a few days ago, but it could have avoided publicly thumbing its nose at India, former Union Minister and Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has said. The US can be accused of not respecting our sensibilities but not of breaking international law, he said.
In a series of tweets today, Mr Tharoor said there was nothing in the United Nations Convention for the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS, the Law of the Sea) that backs India s stand on freedom of navigation through the EEZ.
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For those who love Old Cricket and New India. Perhaps even for those who understand neither cricket nor India,” tweeted External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar over the weekend, posting a video of former West Indies cricket captain Vivian Richards thanking India for the Covid 19 vaccine it has exported to his country, Antigua.
The unkind will probably say that Richards is the Ministry of External Affairs’ (MEA) answer to Rihanna, the West Indian-American singer from Barbados, whose 2 February tweet (“why aren’t we talking about this?”) in support of India’s farmers blew a fuse inside the Narendra Modi government, which launched a whodunit investigation that