Dubai: India’s foreign minister on Tuesday said India is set to bolster ties with its diaspora community and is currently focusing on facilitating the return of expatriates, who had flown home due to the impact of COVID-19, to their respective countries of residence.
Minister Dr S. Jaishankar was delivering a keynote address at a virtual conference held to forge media and entertainment partnerships for celebrating ‘India at 75’ the commemoration of 75 years since India’s independence in foreign countries.
The minister said more than three million Indians returned home under the Vande Bharat Mission and the government also facilitated the return of more than 100,000 foreign citizens to their home countries from India. When Gulf News asked what the federal government was doing for the rehabilitation of Indian expats who have returned home, the minister said the focus now is on facilitating their return to their respective countries of residence.
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NEW DELHI Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab held talks in New Delhi on Dec. 15 about a wide range of topics that included deepening cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, confronting security threats in the region, working together to end the coronavirus crisis, and tackling climate change.
“Welcomed UK’s Indo-Pacific tilt. Will cooperate closely on global issues and in multilateral organizations,” Jaishankar said in a message on Twitter. “Discussed opportunities in a post-COVID post-Brexit world for a stronger India-UK partnership. Working on Roadmap 2030 to that end.”
Raab, who also met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Dec. 16, said the United Kingdom is “committed to building a closer relationship with India.”