Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar mentioned on Thursday that he held a dialogue with United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken on points pertaining to maritime safety challenges, particularly the Pink Sea area. Jaishankar mentioned that he exchanged views on developments associated to the Ukraine battle. “Wanting ahead to realizing our intensive cooperation agenda for 2024,” the Exterior Affairs Minister mentioned.
“ dialogue this night with my pal US @SecBlinken Our dialog centered on maritime safety challenges, particularly the Pink Sea area. Appreciated his insights on ongoing scenario in West Asia, together with Gaza. Exchanged views on developments pertaining to the Ukraine battle. Wanting ahead to realizing our intensive cooperation agenda for 2024,” S Jaishankar mentioned in a submit on X.
dialogue this night with my pal US @SecBlinken.
Our dialog centered on maritime safety challenges, particularly the Pink Sea area. Appreciated his insights on ongoing scenario in West Asia, together with Gaza.
Exchanged views on developments pertaining…
— Dr. S. Jaishankar (@DrSJaishankar) January 11, 2024
In the meantime, the commerce ministry has referred to as a high-level inter-ministerial meet subsequent week to debate methods to insulate India’s commerce from the continued issues within the Pink Sea, a senior official mentioned on Thursday, as reported by PTI. Senior officers from 5 ministries: exterior affairs, defence, transport and finance and commerce are set to participate within the deliberations.
The commerce ministry has additionally arrange an inside strategic group, comprising extra secretaries of the ministry, to debate world points impacting the nation’s commerce each day and put together a technique to cope with them.
“The concept of the inter-ministerial assembly is to see how we are able to strategise our commerce in order that it will get least affected in such a scenario,” the official mentioned, as quoted by PTI.
The scenario across the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, an important transport route connecting the Pink Sea and the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean, has escalated because of current assaults by Yemen-based Houthi militants.