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New Delhi: India on Thursday said there was no “material change” in the situation that would allow holding of the stalled SAARC Summit, days after Pakistan reiterated its offer to host it. Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Monday said Islamabad was ready to host the summit and that India could attend it virtually if it does not want to participate in-person. “We have seen media reports regarding Pakistan foreign minister’s remarks about the SAARC summit. You are aware of the background as to why the SAARC summit has not been held since 2014,” External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said. “There has been no material change in the situation since then. Therefore, there is still no consensus that would permit holding of the summit,” he said replying to a question at a media briefing. The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is a regional bloc comprising India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The SAARC has not been very effective since 2016 as its biennial summits have not taken place since the last one in Kathmandu in 2014. The 2016 SAARC Summit was to be held in Islamabad. But after the terrorist attack on an Indian Army camp in Uri in Jammu and Kashmir on September 18 that year, India expressed its inability to participate in the summit due to “prevailing circumstances”. The summit was called off after Bangladesh, Bhutan and Afghanistan also declined to participate in the Islamabad meet. Asked to comment on Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s reported remarks seeking the international community’s attention against India on the Kashmir issue, Mr Bagchi said the region is an integral and inalienable part of India. He said the remarks were made by the prime minister of a country that openly encourages cross-border terrorism, provided shelter to Osama bin Laden and whose human rights record is known by the entire world. (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
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काठमाडाैं । नेपालको परराष्ट्रमन्त्रीमा डा नारायण खड्का नियुक्त भएकाेमा भारतका विदेशमन्त्री एस जयशङ्करले बधाई ज्ञापन गरेका छन्।सामाजिक सञ्जालमार्फत भारतका विदेशमन्त्रीले खड्कालाई बधाई दिँदै उनीसँग सहकार्य गर्न आफू प्रतीक्षारत रहेको बताएका हुन्। यसैबीच परराष्ट्रमन्त्री खड्का र भारतका विदेशमन्त्रीबीच न्युयोर्कमा भेटवार्ता हुने सम्भावना प्रबल रहेको एक भारतीय कूटनीतिज्ञले न्युयोर्कबाट बताए।संयुक्त राष्ट्रसङ्घको ७६औँ महासभामा भाग लिने सिलसिलामा भारतका विदेशमन्त्री हाल न्यूयोर्कमा छन् भने परराष्ट्रमन्त्री खड्का सोही सिलसिलामा आज अपराह्न त्यहाँ पुग्दै छन्। दक्षिण एसियाली क्षेत्रीय सहयोग सङ्गठन (सार्क) को वर्तमान अध्यक्ष नेपालले महासभाका सन्दर्भमा आयोजना गर्दै आएको सार्क मुलुकका परराष्ट्रमन्त्रीको अनौपचारिक बैठक यसपटक अफगानिस्तानको बदलिँदो राजनीतिक परिदृश्यलाई दृष्टिगत गरी स्थगन गरिएका बेला हुनलागेको नेपाल र भारतका विदेशमन्त्रीको भेटवार्तालाई महत्वपूर्ण मानिएको छ।साभार : डिसी नेपाल