A video on India-Sri Lanka relations after weeks of strained ties
In this week s episode of Worldview, our Diplomatic Affairs Editor Suhasini Haidar tries to unravel one of India’s most close and complex relationships - that between New Delhi and Colombo. After weeks of a strain in ties over Sri Lanka’s decision to scrap the East Container Terminal project with India and Japan, a truce has been effected. Both countries have accepted a deal for the West Container Terminal Project.
Both India and Japan had earlier expressed displeasure about Colombo “unilaterally” pulling out of the 2019 tripartite agreement, signed by the former Maithripala Sirisena-Ranil Wickremesinghe government.
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Incidents here have ripples in the U.K., says Alexander Ellis.
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British High Commissioner to India Alexander Ellis interacts with the media on March 5, 2021. Photo: Twitter/@UKinIndia
Incidents here have ripples in the U.K., says Alexander Ellis.
Maintaining that the new agricultural laws are an “internal matter” of India, new U.K. High Commissioner to India Alexander Ellis on Friday said the debate in the British House of Commons set for Monday was part of issues linked to India that were quite “regularly debated” there.
“Things that happen in India have ripples in the U.K., partly because you do have such a big community in the U.K. So these things get debated,” Mr. Ellis told journalists, explaining that the farm laws and the protests were being discussed as a result of a petition that crossed 1,00,000 signatures, even though the U.K. government’s position was that the issue was an internal one for the Modi government to resolve
: Friday, March 5, 2021, 9:48 PM IST
De-escalation of forces in eastern Ladakh alone will lead to the restoration of peace along LAC: MEA
De-escalation of forces in eastern Ladakh alone will lead to the restoration of peace along LAC: MEA
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New Delhi: India on Friday said it expects China to work with it through existing bilateral consultation mechanisms to ensure early completion of the disengagement process in the remaining areas in eastern Ladakh to allow both sides to consider de-escalation of forces.
The statement comes days after the armies of the two countries concluded withdrawal of troops and weapons from the north and south banks of the Pangong lake.
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1 A handout photo released by Indian Army on February 16, 2021, shows the disengagement process between Indian Army and China’s Peoples Liberation Army from a contested area in the Ladakh region. Indian Army/Handout via Reuters
Sandeep Dikshit
New Delhi, March 5
India said on Friday that it hoped that China will work towards ensuring that disengagement in the remaining areas in eastern Ladakh is completed at the earliest.
This aspect was emphasised by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar in a telephone conversation with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi last week. The External Affairs Minister had emphasised that with the completion of disengagement in the Pangong Lake area, the two sides should now move quickly to resolve the remaining issues along the LAC in Eastern Ladakh, said MEA spokesperson Anurag Srivastava at the weekly media briefing.
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