{"id":32883,"date":"2018-10-29T17:20:24","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T11:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=32883"},"modified":"2018-10-29T17:20:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T11:50:24","slug":"house-panel-quizzes-govt-on-foreign-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/house-panel-quizzes-govt-on-foreign-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"House panel quizzes govt. on foreign policy\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/centre-quizzed-on-neighbourhood-policy\/article22278364.ece\">House panel quizzes govt. on foreign policy<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndia has always been there for the Maldives and will continue our commitment to be the \u2018first\u2019 friend,\u201d said the MEA, which also acknowledged that the 2015 visit to the Maldives by Prime Minister Narendra Modi \u201cwas cancelled at the last minute due to political developments in the Maldives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rift in the relations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s ties with the Maldives has turned cold since the first week of December when Male signed a Free Trade Agreement with China after rushing it through Parliament<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maldives\u2019 reaction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom during the weekend tried to address India\u2019s concerns and said India is Male\u2019s \u201cclosest friend and ally\u201d and both sides are also working on an FTA<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other issues raised<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>India-Nepal ties<\/strong>: A Rajya Sabha member also raised India-Nepal ties following the return of K.P. Sharma Oli as the newly elected leader of Nepal because Mr. Oli is known to be a critic of India\u2019s policies<\/li>\n<li><strong>Visa issue<\/strong>: The Committee also raised the issue of visas for Pakistani civil society activists who wish to travel to India. \u201cPakistan\u2019s civil society and intellectuals have been staunchly democratic and great supporters of normalisation of India-Pakistan ties and therefore there is no ground to delay visas for them,\u201d an MP said<\/li>\n<li>The meeting also discussed the recent developments over the Doklam standoff with China and the ongoing negotiations with Pakistan over Kulbhushan Jadhav<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>MEA\u2019s response<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of External Affairs in its statement kept before the committee said India wishes to engage Pakistan on established principles but \u201cthere will be no compromise on matters pertaining to India\u2019s national security and incidents of cross-border terrorism and infiltration will be dealt with firmly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House panel quizzes govt. on foreign policy\u00a0 Context \u201cIndia has always been there for the Maldives and will continue our commitment to be the \u2018first\u2019 friend,\u201d said the MEA, which also acknowledged that the 2015 visit to the Maldives by Prime Minister Narendra Modi \u201cwas cancelled at the last minute due to political developments in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/house-panel-quizzes-govt-on-foreign-policy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">House panel quizzes govt. on foreign policy\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-32883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704775664},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32883","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=32883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}