Will never allow terrorism to force India to negotiating table: Jaishankar

In a veiled attack on Pakistan External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday said that terrorism cannot be used as a tool to force India on the negotiating tableWhile interacting with the Indian diaspora in Cyprus without mentioning Pakistan Jaishankar said We will never normalize it We will never allow terrorism to force us to the negotiating table We want good neighbourly relations with everybody But good neighbourly relations do not mean excusing or looking away or rationalizing terrorism That we are very clearThe second of course is our borders And we have challenges on our borders The challenges on the borders intensified during the COVID period And you all know that today the state of our relations with China is not normal They are not normal because we will not agree to any attempt to change the Line of Actual Control LAC unilaterally So on the foreign policy side on the national security side I can share with you a picture of firmness on diplomacy on foreign policy because that is something which I am he addedTalking about the expectations from India Jaishankar said that there are lots of expectations as New Delhi is seen as the one that solves problems He further added that India is seen as a country with a strong economy and an independent nationAlso Read IAF successfully testfires extendedrange version of BrahMos missileIndia is negotiating 3 agreements with Cyprus defence operations cooperation migration and mobility agreement to facilitate legal movement of people of both the countries and agreement on International Solar Alliance Jaishankar saidJaishankar said Finally let me say a few words about Indians abroad Indians abroad in the sense of Indian citizens staying abroad people who are part of Indian families abroad and overseas citizens OCS Cardholders from the time the Modi government came I think we have been very clear that Indians abroad are a great source of strength to the motherland I mean there are absolutely no two ways about this But just saying this is not enough As we become bigger as more Indians go out the global workplace increasesToday there are 30 32 33 million Indians 33 crore Indians and people of Indian origin who live abroad maybe about roughly two to one are noncitizens and citizens Now when such a large number of people live abroad and the benefits to India are visible to us in many ways the big issue which arises is what is the obligation of India And the obligation of India is really to take care of them to take care of them to the best possible ability especially in the most difficult situations So you have seen in the last seven or eight years wherever Indians have been in difficulty the Indian government the Indian state is there for them he addedJaishankar mentioned his 40 years of experience in the foreign ministry and said that this has been really a complete transformation of how embassies and high commissions and ministries and officials think about the Indian communityThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever