The exit of the veteran Congress leader, Ghulam Nabi Azad, from the Rajya Sabha has reignited unrest within the party as one section infamous as the Group of 23 believes the truce worked out by Sonia Gandhi in December has been violated. There are murmurs in the party that the efforts at reconciliation have stopped and the leaders of this group face discrimination at different levels on a daily basis. The level of distrust and bitterness between these leaders and the new coterie is so high that any unity of purpose is impossible. This divide is bound to tell on the restructuring processes and the election of a new party president slated to take place over the next couple of months. Many leaders privately confess a “deep sense of hurt” and argue that somebody as senior and loyal as Azad should have been treated with greater sensitivity. They feel that the leadership and its “current advisers” should have anticipated this situation and brought Azad to the Rajya Sabha from R
ABU DHABI, 16th February, 2021 (WAM) Dr. Sultan bin Ahmed Al Jaber, Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology; and Abdulla Shahid, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Maldives, and Mariam Hareb Almheiri, Minister of State for Food Security, co-chaired the ministerial meeting of the inaugural UAE-Maldives joint committee today.
During the meeting, both sides discussed a number of issues of interest to both countries, including cooperation in the fields of politics, education, culture, youth, defence, and security.
The two sides also explored ways to.
Iran’s Defence Minister, Brigadier General Amir Hatami, became the first defence minister of the country to visit India in 40 years, opening a new and significant avenue of cooperation between Tehran and New Delhi. More than just the bilateral, Hatami’s visit on the sidelines of the AeroIndia 2021 event in Bengaluru to take part in the first conclave for the defence ministers of the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) brings Tehran back into New Delhi’s balancing act in West Asia (Middle East), as it continues to work towards maintaining relations between the Gulf, Israel and Iran. Hatami was invited to attend the event during Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s visit to Iran in September 2020.
Washington, Tel Aviv use terrorism to gain influence, says Iran
Iran s Defence Minister Amir Hatami in Tehran, Iran on 30 August 2020 [Iranian Presidency/Anadolu Agency] February 5, 2021 at 12:42 am
Iranian Defence Minister Amir Hatami has proclaimed that the US and Israel are using terrorism as a tool to gain more influence.
The Iranian Ministry of Defence stated on Thursday that Hatami participated in a meeting of defence ministers of the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA), held in the Indian city of Bangalore.
In a speech he delivered during the meeting, the Iranian official pointed out that his country considers the Indian Ocean a gateway to the world, stressing that countries located on the coasts of the Indian Ocean should benefit fairly from the basin resources.
Foreign Secretary Admiral Prof. Jayanath Colombage said that Sri Lanka has committed to bring together like-minded persons working on Maritime Safety and Security (MSS) issues to organise a series of workshops/seminars on MSS locally and regionally, looking at how Sri Lanka can benefit from and contribute to regional cooperation on MSS.The Foreign Secretary addressed a networking meeting recently at the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute taking.