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‘Committed To Af Sovereignty, Independence’
NEW DELHI: India backed Afghanistan's announcement that it volition physique a dam connected the Kunar river, saying it stands acceptable to enactment Afghanistan successful sustainable h2o management, including connected hydroelectric projects.
Amidst Afghanistan-Pakistan tensions, the govt besides reiterated its presumption that it is afloat committed to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Afghanistan.On the dam issue, ministry of outer affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said there's a past of practice betwixt India and Afghanistan connected specified issues, including the Salma Dam successful Herat province.Afghanistan past week announced plans to statesman operation of a dam connected the Kunar stream that flows into Pakistan's northwestern region, raising concerns successful Islamabad astir apt regularisation connected the travel of h2o into the country.
Pakistan is faced with akin concerns emanating from India's determination to enactment successful abeyance the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty, a Word Bank-brokered h2o sharing statement betwixt the 2 countries, aft the Pahalgam violent attack."Pakistan is infuriated with Afghanistan exercising sovereignty implicit its ain territories. Pakistan seems to deliberation that it has the close to signifier cross-border coercion with impunity.
Its neighbors find it unacceptable. India remains afloat committed to the sovereignty, territorial integrity and independency of Afghanistan," said the Indian official.
‘OIC has nary locus standi to remark connected J&K’
Govt rejected OIC’s latest connection connected J&K, saying the radical had nary locus standi to remark connected issues interior to India. “Regarding the connection made by the OIC secretariat, we cull those statements. They don’t person immoderate locus standi to talk connected matters which are interior to India,” said the MEA spokesperson.The OIC wide secretariat had released a connection Monday successful which it reiterated “full solidarity with the radical of J&K successful their morganatic quest for the close to self-determination”.
India backs Turkiye rival Cyprus
Amidst India’s strained narration with Turkiye, MEA S Jaishankar reiterated New Delhi’s “unwavering” enactment for the sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity of Republic of Cyprus, which does not person diplomatic ties with Ankara, successful enactment with applicable UN Security Council Resolutions. In a gathering with his visiting counterpart Constantinos Kombos, the curate besides appreciated Cyprus’s accordant enactment connected issues of halfway involvement to India, particularly successful the conflict against cross-border coercion and India’s bid to go a imperishable subordinate of the information council.
