Nueva Delhi: India is attentive to developments in its neighborhood that “influence” their “interest and security,” said the Ministry of External Affairs on a recent trilateral meeting between Pakistan, Bangladesh and China, and added that invoice in the “evolutionary context” in their bilateral relations with these countries.
According The wireDuring a trilateral meeting in Kunming, China, on June 19 that involved the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Chinese Sun Weidong, the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh, Ruhul Siddique and the Secretary of Additional Foreign Affairs of Pakistan, Imran Siddiqui, the three parties agreed to explore the cooperation in several sectors of sectors, including the “maritime. Maritime “, health and the environment.
He asked for comments on the meeting during the Weekly Press SESSION of the Ministry on Thursday, spokesman Randhir Jaiswal said that “we maintain constant surveillance about developments in our neighborhood that have a relationship with our interest and our security.”
“Our relations with individual countries, while staying in their own position, also take into account the evolution context,” he added.
According The wireNew Delhi comments suggest a certain degree of discomfort with the trilateral meeting, which include countries with which it has hostile or uncomfortable relations, and comes, since otherwise it has adopted the opinion that it does not see bilateral relations through the lens of third countries.
By the way, the Chinese reading of the trilateral meeting had indicated that cooperation between the three parties “was not aimed at any third party.”
Dhaka echoed this point of view on Thursday, with his foreign interim advisor Touhid Hossain telling journalists that the meeting “certainly” no “attacked any third party.”
‘Readjustment’ in Delhika ties
He also acknowledged that Dhaka’s relationship with New Delhi was experiencing a “readjustment” during the mandate of the interim government of Muhammad Yunus compared to the warmest relations previously under the deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who has remained in India since he took refuge here immediately after his violent supervision in August last year.
Bilateral relations have been grated after Yunus assumed the position, and India insisted that religious minorities in Bangladesh have been vulnerable to being attacked under their surveillance.
Posted in Dawn, June 28, 2025
