{"id":35706,"date":"2018-11-01T11:28:23","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T05:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35706"},"modified":"2018-11-01T11:28:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T05:58:23","slug":"uae-joins-chorus-of-concern-over-doklam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/uae-joins-chorus-of-concern-over-doklam\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE joins chorus of concern over Doklam:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/uae-joins-chorus-of-concern-over-doklam\/article19468580.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UAE joins chorus of concern over Doklam<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Any military escalation between India and China would be \u201cpotentially very disruptive\u201d for the region, said Anwar Gargash, the visiting Minister of Foreign Affairs from the United Arab Emirates.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Gargash discussing Doklam issue<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mr. Gargash discussed the current standoff at Doklam with External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and National Security Adviser Ajit Doval in Delhi on Wednesday.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe were informed of the developments and the concerns on Doklam and I have also been following the issue through reports in the press,\u201d Mr. Gargash made his statement.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mr. Gargash joined other countries including Australia and the U.S. in expressing concern about the situation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Any escalation between two great powers, India and China is potentially very disruptive for all of us, said Mr. Gargash.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The more there is a way to resolve these issues between two great nations, the more stable we feel we are,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Mr. Gargash visit<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mr. Gargash was in Delhi on his fifth trip this year to discuss deepening bilateral ties, but also as a part of a diplomatic offensive by Gulf states following their economic blockade over what they call Qatar\u2019s broken promises on ending support to \u201cextremism, jihadism and terrorism\u201d.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Minister assured the Indian leadership that Indian expatriates would not \u201csuffer\u201d because of the blockade and \u201cIndian economic interests in the region\u201d would not be affected by the clash between Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE and Egypt against Qatar that has dragged on since June 3.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mr. Gargash also accepted that program on proposed investment from the UAE sovereign wealth fund (SWF) into Indian infrastructure projects had been overdue over procedural negotiations, and specifically the mandate of the governing body of the National Infrastructure Investment Fund (NIIF).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The investment has been delayed despite two visits by UAE Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed al-Nahyan to India in the past two years, and a visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the Emirates.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The whole idea of UAE investment in India was an old model, and should have been more institutional that is why things have taken more time because of the establishment of the NIIF, according to Mr. Gargash.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The minister wouldn\u2019t confirm that the figure of $75 billion announced during Mr. Modi\u2019s visit would flow into the NIIF\u2019s coffers, as \u201cUAE has said we have a huge appetite for India.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UAE joins chorus of concern over Doklam:\u00a0 Context Any military escalation between India and China would be \u201cpotentially very disruptive\u201d for the region, said Anwar Gargash, the visiting Minister of Foreign Affairs from the United Arab Emirates. Gargash discussing Doklam issue Mr. Gargash discussed the current standoff at Doklam with External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/uae-joins-chorus-of-concern-over-doklam\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UAE joins chorus of concern over Doklam:\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-35706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704856681},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35706","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=35706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}