'Impossible to muddy ties with India': New Maldives' opposition party leader Abdulla Shahid amid diplomatic row
The Maldives is a key maritime neighbour in the Indian Ocean region and occupies a special place in its initiatives like SAGAR' (Security and Growth for All in the Region) and the Neighbourhood First Policy' of the Narendra Modi government. The island nation's proximity to India — barely 70 nautical miles from the island of Minicoy in Lakshadweep and 300 nautical miles from the mainland's western coast — and its location at the hub of commercial sea lanes running through the Indian Ocean Region gives it significant strategic importance.
“Humanity is humanity. Diplomacy is diplomacy, and politics is politics.
The whole world doesn't always run with obligation...so if we have encountered such a situation, the solution will come through diplomacy only. We have to make people understand, sometimes people don't even have complete knowledge of things, sometimes people get misguided on what others say," said External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Monday.
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