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AFP
Brussels
India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Monday defended his country’s controversial new citizenship law and crackdown in Kashmir, as he came to Brussels to promote what he hopes will be closer strategic ties to the European Union.
Delhi’s top diplomat was the guest of honour as EU foreign ministers met in Brussels with an eye to renewing relations and boosting trade with the south Asian giant. But some in Europe are worried about what they see as India’s populist shift under Modi’s right-wing government. Lawmakers in the European Parliament have drafted a resolution condemning India’s Citizenship Amendment Act of 2019 as “discriminatory in nature and dangerously divisive.”
But the non-binding resolution has yet to be passed and Jaishankar insisted the law had been misunderstood.
Jaishankar compared the CAA rules to immigration and refugee resettlement policies across Europe, pointing out that many EU countries also use national or cultural criteria.
Brussels
India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Monday defended his country’s controversial new citizenship law and crackdown in Kashmir, as he came to Brussels to promote what he hopes will be closer strategic ties to the European Union.
Delhi’s top diplomat was the guest of honour as EU foreign ministers met in Brussels with an eye to renewing relations and boosting trade with the south Asian giant. But some in Europe are worried about what they see as India’s populist shift under Modi’s right-wing government. Lawmakers in the European Parliament have drafted a resolution condemning India’s Citizenship Amendment Act of 2019 as “discriminatory in nature and dangerously divisive.”
But the non-binding resolution has yet to be passed and Jaishankar insisted the law had been misunderstood.
Jaishankar compared the CAA rules to immigration and refugee resettlement policies across Europe, pointing out that many EU countries also use national or cultural criteria.
