External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar will represent India at the annual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in Astana next week as Prime Minister Narendra Modi has decided to skip it. It is learnt that Mr. Modi decided to skip the SCO summit in view of his planned two-nation trip to Russia and Austria. "The Indian delegation at the SCO …
Highlighting the increasing global backing for India’s permanent membership at the United Nations Security Council, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that sometimes things are not given generously and one has to seize it. On the relevance of the UN, the EAM said that in many ways, the limitations of the UN are now showing and that the organisation used …
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday night held a telephonic conversation with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken focusing on the crisis in Ukraine, situation in Indo-Pacific and bilateral cooperation. US Deputy National Security Adviser Daleep Singh arrived in India on Wednesday on a two-day visit. US President Joe Biden recently made a veiled dig at India over its …