{"id":32156,"date":"2018-10-29T12:51:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T07:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=32156"},"modified":"2018-10-29T12:51:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T07:21:29","slug":"delhi-male-set-to-reboot-bilateral-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/delhi-male-set-to-reboot-bilateral-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi Male set to reboot bilateral ties\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/delhi-male-set-to-reboot-bilateral-ties\/article22406390.ece\"><strong>Delhi Male set to reboot bilateral ties<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Maldivian foreign ministers\u2019 India visit<\/p>\n<p><strong>What has happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a sign of a possible thaw in India-Maldives\u00a0ties, Maldivian Foreign Minister Mohamed Asim will arrive in Delhi on Wednesday to meet Prime Minister NarendraModi and External Affairs Minister SushmaSwaraj on Thursday. The visit was announced by the External Affairs Ministry and the Maldives government on Tuesday<\/p>\n<p><strong>What matters might be discussed?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There would be discussions on the MoUs that were signed during President Abdulla Yameen\u2019s visit to Delhi in April 2016<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why this visit is important?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr.Asim\u2019s visit is the first high-level visit between the two countries in nearly a year, since Minister of State for External Affairs M.J. Akbar visited in February 2017, and the first since the Maldives and China signed a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in November 2017<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>India\u2019s concerns: <\/strong>Shortly thereafter, India had indicated its displeasure at the speed with which the FTA was passed in the Maldivian parliament, followed by President Yameen\u2019s state visit to Beijing. \u201cIt is our expectation that as a close and friendly neighbour, Maldives will be sensitive to our concerns, in keeping with its India First policy,\u201d External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar had said at the time<\/li>\n<li>Male is the only SAARC capital Mr.Modi has not visited since he took office, having cancelled a planned visit in March 2015 over the Yameen government\u2019s crackdown on political protests, putting a strain on bilateral ties<\/li>\n<li>An official invitation last year by New Delhi to former President Mohammed Nasheed, who faces a jail term in the Maldives, had further widened the perceived rift<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Fact<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Counter-terrorism exercises between armed forces called \u201cEKUVERIN\u201d were held in Karnataka<\/p>\n<p><strong>FTA dialogue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the issue of the Free Trade Agreement negotiations, Mr. Mohamed admitted that \u201cno serious negotiations\u201d had taken place between India and the Maldives yet, but that his government \u201cwould like to have an FTA in place\u201d at the earliest. The FTA was only one of a series of issues between New Delhi and the Maldives in the past few months, however<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other issues b\/w India &amp; Mauritius<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Strictures against officials meeting Indian diplomats: <\/strong>In December, the Yameen government passed strictures against local councillors, who met High Commissioner of India Akhilesh Mishra, and restricted local officials from meeting diplomats<\/li>\n<li>An editorial in a government-friendly newspaper, the\u00a0<em>Vaguthu<\/em>, criticising the Modi government\u2019s \u201cpro-Hindutva\u201d policies had also caused concern in New Delhi. The editorial, which was condemned by the Opposition, was subsequently withdrawn, but Mr.Nasheed had also alleged that President Yameen\u2019s actions were spoiling ties with India\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cPresident Yameen\u2019s reckless foreign policy is destroying our relationship with India. The Maldives must be sensitive to India\u2019s security and safety,\u201d he said in a tweet last month<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14321 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.forumias.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/kenya.jpg?resize=394%2C378\" alt=\"\" width=\"394\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/kenya.jpg?w=394&amp;ssl=1 394w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/kenya.jpg?resize=150%2C144&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/kenya.jpg?resize=300%2C288&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi Male set to reboot bilateral ties\u00a0 Context Maldivian foreign ministers\u2019 India visit What has happened? In a sign of a possible thaw in India-Maldives\u00a0ties, Maldivian Foreign Minister Mohamed Asim will arrive in Delhi on Wednesday to meet Prime Minister NarendraModi and External Affairs Minister SushmaSwaraj on Thursday. The visit was announced by the External&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/delhi-male-set-to-reboot-bilateral-ties\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Delhi Male set to reboot bilateral ties\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704902285},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}