Diplomacy

The people, who spoke on condition of anonymity, added that Modi used the opportunity to demolish Khan’s unsubstantiated allegations and narrated his personal efforts to forge normal ties with Pakistan and how Islamabad responded to these with terror attacks on India. Specifically, the people said, Modi told Trump about his unscheduled December 25, 2015 visit to Lahore, which was undertaken despite severe risks, and how the outcome of the entire exercise was not peace but an attack on the Indian Air Force’s Pathankot air base within a week.

This is something worth exploring, since it is only in the post-Cold War era that the two countries started reaching out to each other. First, the ties between India and Japan have progressed at a rapid pace under the watch of the two leaders. When Modi visited Japan last year for the annual bilateral summit, he was invited by Abe, in a rare gesture, to his holiday home in the Yamanashi prefecture near Tokyo, reflecting the camaraderie between the two leaders.

India’s historic relations with the countries of the Caribbean witnessed a new momentum with the meeting of Modi with 14 leaders of the CARICOM group of countries on sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on 25 September in New York. Allen Chastenet, Prime Minister of St Lucia and current Chairman of CARICOM co-chaired the meeting.

Doval will meet top security officials and take stock of security and development-related activities in the state, which will be converted into two Union Territories—Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh—on October 31, the officials said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit was extremely significant in many ways. It could herald a surge in India-Russian joint ventures both within India, but more within Russia.

Saudi Ambassador Dr Saud bin Mohammed Al Sati said India and Saudi Arabia are closely cooperating with each other in fighting terrorism. Saudi Arabia has been siding with India in its campaign to rid the region of terrorism and pledged to extend all cooperation to effectively deal with the challenge.

In the spirit of his fundamental Mantra “Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas aur Sabka Vishwas (together with all, for the development of all and with the trust of all) the Indian PM announced allocation of $ 12 million grant ($ 1 million to each PSIDS) towards implementation of high impact developmental project in the area of their choice.

Modi held meetings with the Presidents of Namibia, the Maldives, Niger, the Prime Minister of Italy, the Emir of Qatar and the UNICEF chief.

To increase the confidence of the business communities of the two countries, both sides stressed the importance of the bilateral judicial cooperation.