Diplomacy

India and Greece discussed recent developments in the Eastern Mediterranean, Cyprus, and Libya during External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s visit to the Greek capital Athens. Eastern Mediterranean, a few months ago saw tense developments over Turkey’s claims in the Exclusive Economic Zone, which Greece says belongs to it under UN laws. Cyprus and Libya are also part of the same issues given their Exclusive Economic Zones are also impacted in the ongoing tussle in the region.

Close on the heels of Italy’s medical support to India to fight the second wave of Covid, a Memorandum of Understanding on the cooperation in the field of disaster risk reduction and management was signed this week by New Delhi and Rome to share and learn from each others’ best practices.

India along with France on Friday co-hosted a virtual event focussing on countering financing of terrorism in the post-Covid landscape at the second United Nations Counter-terrorism week.

The national security advisers of India and Russia held a brainstorming session on several issues including the Afghan situation amid US troop withdrawal and the future role of Taliban on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s (SCO) NSA-led meeting this week.