Issue is not Art 370, but Pak's terrorists: EAM

September 17, 2019 17:13

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Tuesday that India's foreign policy today has a much stronger connection with the national security policy and the country's appetite to shape global agenda is much more than before.

Addressing a press conference to mark the first 100 days of the BJP-led government at the Centre in its second tenure, Jaishankar said that there is a stronger link now between domestic and foreign policy. He said the country was leveraging global practices and partnerships to foster development and there were more technology and project-based outcomes. "Collaborations have become a more salient part of foreign policy," he said and referred to North America, Europe, Northeast Asia, ASEAN, and the Gulf as among areas of active engagement.

With regard to Pakistan, Jaishankar said, "The issue is not Article 370 but Pakistans terrorists. We must make the world realise. I always ask other people show me anywhere else in the world where any country conducts terrorism openly against its neighbor as part of what it considers its foreign policy. I meet the Pakistani Foreign Minister on the sidelines of UNGA."

Jaishankar on the face-off between Indian and Chinese troops near Pangong Lake in Ladakh: "There was no skirmish. There was a face-off and it was resolved. It happened because there are differing perceptions of Line of Actual Control, patrols meet and sometimes that kind of situations happen. There are mechanisms to address such situations and in this particular case the mechanism kicked into play and they did address the situation."

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