Prime Mnister Narendra Modi should preempt the conspiratorial attempts to scuttle S400 deal. Repeat of Rafale saga should not be allowed
Monday, 22 March 2021
Friday, 19 March 2021
Thursday, 18 March 2021
U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, “If India chooses to go forward with its purchase of the S-400, that act will clearly constitute a significant, and therefore sanctionable, transaction with the Russian defense sector under Section 231 of CAATSA.
Keep your sanction law to yourself, India would not budge.
Wednesday, 17 March 2021
Tuesday, 16 March 2021
Rahul Gandhi Uvaach- "The US institutions are showing much more resilience than the Indian ones (with regard to democratic functioning)"
Really?
No body blocked your tweeter account (17.7M) and ask Donald Trump what happened to his account with 88M followers.
Just the other day MEA S Jaishankar said,"“Whatever you may say, in this country (India), nobody questions an election. Can you say that in those countries?”
Monday, 15 March 2021
Sunday, 14 March 2021
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on tool kit
S Jaishankar speaks on Greta Thunberg, Rihanna, Meena Harris and Mia Khalifa's tweets in support of farmers protest, ''Let's not pretend it was an innocent practice that was exercised''.
He said, Call for protests at Indian Missions in Canada,US and UK endangered safety and security of Missions and diplomats,
Foreign Minister S Jaishankar to Western establishment-
Mind your own business you hypocrites!
In an interview S Jaishankar was asked to respond to "decline in the country’s status on the freedom index" and suggestions that India is now an electoral autocracy
S Jaishankar said, “You used the dichotomy of democracy and autocracy. (Do) you want a truthful answer? It is hypocrisy. We have a set of self-appointed custodians of the world who find it very difficult to stomach that somebody in India is not looking for their approval…They invent their rules, their parameters, pass their judgments and make it look as though it is some kind of global exercise.”
S Jaishankar said that all such agenda-driven reports refer to the BJP as a ‘Hindu nationalist party.’ Well!, “We are the nationalist guys. We have given vaccines to 70 countries in the world. Tell me (about) the internationalist countries. How many vaccines have then given? Which one of these countries have said that while I do (vaccinate) my own people, I will do (inoculate) other people who need it as much as we do. Where are these people?”
All of us are entitled to our beliefs, our faith and values. I do not put my hand on a religious book when I take my oath of office. Guess which country does?” His comments were again directed at the US, where the President takes the oath of office by placing one hand on the Bible and not the Constitution. “I am self-assured about my country. I don’t need a certificate from other countries who clearly have some agenda to drive,”
‘We don’t need a certificate from others’
Saturday, 13 March 2021
Foreign Minister S Jaishankar hits back at US/UK/Swedish think tanks' reports on democracy and civil rights in India
" I don’t need a certificate from other countries who clearly have some agenda to drive,”
In other words the soft spoken Chanakya of international diplomacy said, Mind your own business you hypocrites!
Friday, 12 March 2021
Quad Summit Fact Sheet
March 12, 2021
The Quad Vaccine Partnership
While ensuring that vaccines have been made available to our people, "Quad” partners will launch a landmark partnership to further accelerate the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. Together, Quad leaders are taking shared action necessary to expand safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing in 2021, and will work together to strengthen and assist countries in the Indo-Pacific with vaccination,in close coordination with the existing relevant multilateral mechanisms including WHO and COVAX.
Drawing on each of our strengths, we will tackle this complex issue with multi-sectoral cooperation across many stages of action, starting with ensuring global availability of safe and effective vaccines.
Quad partners are working collaboratively to achieve expanded manufacturing of safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines at facilities in India, prioritizing increased capacity for vaccines authorized by Stringent Regulatory Authorities (SRA).
Quad partners will address financing and logistical demands for production, procurement, and delivery of safe and effective vaccines. Quad partners will work to use our shared tools and expertise, through mechanisms at institutions including the United States Development Finance Corporation (DFC), Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), and, as appropriate, Japan Bank of International Cooperation (JBIC), as well as others.
The United States, through the DFC, will work with Biological E Ltd., to finance increased capacity to support Biological E's effort to produce at least 1 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines by the end of 2022 with Stringent Regulatory Authorization (SRA) and/or World Health Organization (WHO) Emergency Use Listing (EUL), including the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
Japan, through JICA, is in discussions to provide concessional yen loans for the Government of India to expand manufacturing for COVID-19 vaccines for export, with a priority on producing vaccines that have received authorization from WHO Emergency Use Listing (EUL) or Stringent Regulatory Authorities.
Quad partners will ensure expanded manufacturing will be exported for global benefit, to be procured through key multilateral initiatives, such as COVAX, that provide life-saving vaccines for low-income countries, and by countries in need.
Quad partners will also cooperate to strengthen "last-mile” vaccination, building on existing health-security and development programs, and across our governments to coordinate and strengthen our programs in the Indo-Pacific.
This includes supporting countries with vaccine readiness and delivery, vaccine procurement, health workforce preparedness, responses to vaccine misinformation, community engagement, immunization capacity, and more.
Australia will contribute US$77 million for the provision of vaccines and "last-mile” delivery support with a focus on Southeast Asia, in addition to its existing commitment of US$407 million for regional vaccine access and health security which will provide full vaccine coverage to nine Pacific Island countries and Timor-Leste, and support procurement, prepare for vaccine delivery, and strengthen health systems in Southeast Asia.
Japan will assist vaccination programs of developing countries such as the purchase of vaccines and cold-chain support including through provision of grant aid of $41 million and new concessional yen loans, ensuring alignment with and support of COVAX.
The United States will leverage existing programs to further boost vaccination capability, drawing on at least $100 million in regional efforts focused on immunization.
Our commitment will be implemented by the launch of a senior-level Quad Vaccine Experts Group, comprised of top scientists and officials from our governments. This group will support Quad cooperation in the longterm, and use science and evidence to:
design an implementation plan for the Quad COVID-19 vaccine effort;
identify hurdles impeding vaccine administration in the region;
work with financers and production facilities to monitor timely and sufficient capacity expansion that will lead to wider distribution of safe and effective vaccines;
share governmental plans to support Indo-Pacific health security and COVID-19 response, and identify practical cooperation on "last-mile” delivery for hard-to-reach communities in need;
strengthen and support the life-saving work of international organizations, including the WHO, COVAX, Gavi, CEPI, UNICEF, the G7, ASEAN, and governments, and call on other countries to do the same;
make additional concrete recommendations before the end of the year.
We have identified the climate challenge as a priority for the Quad and the Indo-Pacific region. We will establish a new Quad Climate Working Group focused on:
· Cooperation, both among ourselves and with other countries, to strengthen implementation of the Paris Agreement, including to keep a Paris-aligned temperature limit within reach;
· Working together and with other countries to support, strengthen, and enhance actions globally;
· Committing to advancing low-emissions technology solutions to support emissions reduction;
· Cooperation on climate mitigation, adaptation, resilience, technology, capacity-building, and climate finance.
The Quad Critical and Emerging Technology Working Group
Quad leaders recognize that a free,open, inclusive, and resilient Indo-Pacific requires that critical and emerging technology is governed and operates according to shared interests and values. In that spirit, we will convene a Critical and Emerging Technology Working Group, which will:
· Develop a statement of principles on technology design, development, and use;
· Facilitate coordination on technology standards development, including between our national technology standards bodies and working with a broad range of partners;
· Encourage cooperation on telecommunications deployment, diversification of equipment suppliers, and future telecommunications, including through close cooperation with our private sectors and industry;
Facilitate cooperation to monitor trends and opportunities related to developments in critical and emerging technology, including biotechnology;
Convene dialogues on critical technology supply chains.
Quad Leaders’ Joint Statement: “The Spirit of the Quad”
March 12, 2021
1. We have convened to reaffirm our commitment to quadrilateral cooperation between Australia, India, Japan, and the United States. We bring diverse perspectives and are united in a shared vision for the free and open Indo-Pacific. We strive for a region that is free, open, inclusive, healthy, anchored by democratic values, and unconstrained by coercion. We recall that our joint efforts toward this positive vision arose out of an international tragedy, the tsunami of 2004. Today, the global devastation wrought by COVID-19, the threat of climate change, and security challenges facing the region summon us with renewed purpose. On this historic occasion of March 12, 2021, the first-ever leader-level summit of the Quad, we pledge to strengthen our cooperation on the defining challenges of our time.
2. Together, we commit to promoting a free, open rules-based order, rooted in international law to advance security and prosperity and counter threats to both in the Indo-Pacific and beyond. We support the rule of law, freedom of navigation and overflight, peaceful resolution of disputes, democratic values, and territorial integrity. We commit to work together and with a range of partners. We reaffirm our strong support for ASEAN’s unity and centrality as well as the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific. Full of potential, the Quad looks forward to the future; it seeks to uphold peace and prosperity and strengthen democratic resilience, based on universal values.
3. Our common goals require us to reckon with the most urgent of global challenges. Today, we pledge to respond to the economic and health impacts of COVID-19, combat climate change, and address shared challenges, including in cyber space, critical technologies, counterterrorism, quality infrastructure investment, and humanitarian-assistance and disaster-relief as well as maritime domains.
4. Building on the progress our countries have achieved on health security, we will join forces to expand safe, affordable, and effective vaccine production and equitable access, to speed economic recovery and benefit global health. With steadfast commitment to the health and safety of our own people, we also recognize that none of us can be safe as long as the pandemic continues to spread. We will, therefore, collaborate to strengthen equitable vaccine access for the Indo-Pacific, with close coordination with multilateral organizations including the World Health Organization and COVAX. We call for transparent and results-oriented reform at the World Health Organization. We are united in recognizing that climate change is a global priority and will work to strengthen the climate actions of all nations, including to keep a Paris-aligned temperature limit within reach. We look forward to a successful COP 26 in Glasgow. We will begin cooperation on the critical technologies of the future to ensure that innovation is consistent with a free, open, inclusive, and resilient Indo-Pacific. We will continue to prioritize the role of international law in the maritime domain, particularly as reflected in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), and facilitate collaboration, including in maritime security, to meet challenges to the rules-based maritime order in the East and South China Seas. We reaffirm our commitment to the complete denuclearization of North Korea in accordance with United Nations Security Council resolutions, and also confirm the necessity of immediate resolution of the issue of Japanese abductees. As long-standing supporters of Myanmar and its people, we emphasize the urgent need to restore democracy and the priority of strengthening democratic resilience.
5. To advance these goals and others, we will redouble our commitment to Quad engagement. We will combine our nations’ medical, scientific, financing, manufacturing and delivery, and development capabilities and establish a vaccine expert working group to implement our path-breaking commitment to safe and effective vaccine distribution; we will launch a critical- and emerging-technology working group to facilitate cooperation on international standards and innovative technologies of the future; and we will establish a climate working group to strengthen climate actions globally on mitigation, adaptation, resilience, technology, capacity-building, and climate finance. Our experts and senior officials will continue to meet regularly; our Foreign Ministers will converse often and meet at least once a year. At the leader level, we will hold an in-person summit by the end of 2021. The ambition of these engagements is fit to the moment; we are committed to leveraging our partnership to help the world’s most dynamic region respond to historic crisis, so that it may be the free, open, accessible, diverse, and thriving Indo-Pacific we all seek.
2. Together, we commit to promoting a free, open rules-based order, rooted in international law to advance security and prosperity and counter threats to both in the Indo-Pacific and beyond. We support the rule of law, freedom of navigation and overflight, peaceful resolution of disputes, democratic values, and territorial integrity. We commit to work together and with a range of partners. We reaffirm our strong support for ASEAN’s unity and centrality as well as the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific. Full of potential, the Quad looks forward to the future; it seeks to uphold peace and prosperity and strengthen democratic resilience, based on universal values.
3. Our common goals require us to reckon with the most urgent of global challenges. Today, we pledge to respond to the economic and health impacts of COVID-19, combat climate change, and address shared challenges, including in cyber space, critical technologies, counterterrorism, quality infrastructure investment, and humanitarian-assistance and disaster-relief as well as maritime domains.
4. Building on the progress our countries have achieved on health security, we will join forces to expand safe, affordable, and effective vaccine production and equitable access, to speed economic recovery and benefit global health. With steadfast commitment to the health and safety of our own people, we also recognize that none of us can be safe as long as the pandemic continues to spread. We will, therefore, collaborate to strengthen equitable vaccine access for the Indo-Pacific, with close coordination with multilateral organizations including the World Health Organization and COVAX. We call for transparent and results-oriented reform at the World Health Organization. We are united in recognizing that climate change is a global priority and will work to strengthen the climate actions of all nations, including to keep a Paris-aligned temperature limit within reach. We look forward to a successful COP 26 in Glasgow. We will begin cooperation on the critical technologies of the future to ensure that innovation is consistent with a free, open, inclusive, and resilient Indo-Pacific. We will continue to prioritize the role of international law in the maritime domain, particularly as reflected in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), and facilitate collaboration, including in maritime security, to meet challenges to the rules-based maritime order in the East and South China Seas. We reaffirm our commitment to the complete denuclearization of North Korea in accordance with United Nations Security Council resolutions, and also confirm the necessity of immediate resolution of the issue of Japanese abductees. As long-standing supporters of Myanmar and its people, we emphasize the urgent need to restore democracy and the priority of strengthening democratic resilience.
5. To advance these goals and others, we will redouble our commitment to Quad engagement. We will combine our nations’ medical, scientific, financing, manufacturing and delivery, and development capabilities and establish a vaccine expert working group to implement our path-breaking commitment to safe and effective vaccine distribution; we will launch a critical- and emerging-technology working group to facilitate cooperation on international standards and innovative technologies of the future; and we will establish a climate working group to strengthen climate actions globally on mitigation, adaptation, resilience, technology, capacity-building, and climate finance. Our experts and senior officials will continue to meet regularly; our Foreign Ministers will converse often and meet at least once a year. At the leader level, we will hold an in-person summit by the end of 2021. The ambition of these engagements is fit to the moment; we are committed to leveraging our partnership to help the world’s most dynamic region respond to historic crisis, so that it may be the free, open, accessible, diverse, and thriving Indo-Pacific we all seek.
Thursday, 11 March 2021
First Quad Summit- March 12, 2021
Four blind men fathom an elephant called Quad.
Three of them got hold of elephant's trunk, and in eureka moment they cried- Dragon! Dragon!!
Narendra Modi embraced Ganesha's foot and quietly said, a pillar.
A pillar in the multi-polar new world order which also includes Russia.
Wednesday, 10 March 2021
Tuesday, 9 March 2021
India confirms Quad Summit on March 12
MEA Press Release
First Quad Leaders’ Virtual Summit
March 09, 2021
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will be participating, along with Prime Minister of Australia Scott Morrison and Prime Minister of Japan Yoshihide Suga and President of U.S.A. Joseph R. Biden, in the first Leaders’ Summit of the Quadrilateral Framework, being held virtually on 12th March 2021
The Leaders will discuss regional and global issues of shared interest, and exchange views on practical areas of cooperation towards maintaining a free, open and inclusive Indo-Pacific region. The Summit will provide an opportunity to exchange views on contemporary challenges such as resilient supply chains, emerging and critical technologies, maritime security, and climate change.
The Leaders will discuss ongoing efforts to combat Covid-19 pandemic and explore opportunities for collaboration in ensuring safe, equitable and affordable vaccines in the Indo-Pacific region.
The Leaders will discuss regional and global issues of shared interest, and exchange views on practical areas of cooperation towards maintaining a free, open and inclusive Indo-Pacific region. The Summit will provide an opportunity to exchange views on contemporary challenges such as resilient supply chains, emerging and critical technologies, maritime security, and climate change.
The Leaders will discuss ongoing efforts to combat Covid-19 pandemic and explore opportunities for collaboration in ensuring safe, equitable and affordable vaccines in the Indo-Pacific region.
UK Parliamentarians recited "Devils Dictionary" to Target Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Indian democracy and Indian society at large:-
Authoritarian, fascist, right wing extremist, Hindu nationalist, suppressor of human rights, suppressor of civil liberties, oppressor of minorities, ruthless, merciless, highhandedness, disproportionate use of force, press censorship, use of Draconian sedition laws against journalist etc. One MP said Indian police used live ammunition against protesters.
And Minister Nigel Adams listened silently perhaps approvingly
UK foreign office mouthpiece BBC hurled abuses on 90 year old mother of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. last week. UK Home secretary Priti Patel, Herself a Gujarati did not utter a single word, so much respect and sensitivity to Gujarati Asmita !
On Monday UK Parliamentarian did the same in the name of press freedom and peaceful protests, They hurled abuses on PM Modi, Indian democracy and Indian society at large.
MEA said enough is enough. Issued a demarche to British High Commissioner. A singular event in India-UK relations.
Threat of sanctions against Prime Minister Narendra Modi
UK's diplomatic disaster- blame it on Nigel Adams (Minister of State for Asia)
He did not rule out sanctions against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
While replying to demand raised by MP Tahir Ali (Pakistani origin) he simply said," UK launched a sanction regime in July that enables UK to impose sanctions on those those who commit serious human rights violation or abuses.It is not appropriate to speculate on who may be designated under sanction regime in future ."
He further said," as to do so could very well reduce the impact (of sanctions)"
India strikes back
MEA Press Statement on démarche to the British High Commissioner on the unwarranted discussion in the British Parliament on agricultural reforms in India
March 09, 2021
Foreign Secretary summoned the British High Commissioner and conveyed strong opposition to the unwarranted and tendentious discussion on agricultural reforms in India in the British Parliament. Foreign Secretary made clear that this represented a gross interference in the politics of another democratic country. He advised that British MPs should refrain from practising vote bank politics by misrepresenting events, especially in relation to another fellow democracy.
Sanctions against Prime Minister Narendra Modi ?
UK parliament debate (press freedom and farmers protest in India)
Tahir Ali (Pakistani origin) Labour Member of Parliament for Birmingham Hall Green demanded "imposition of sanctions -diplomatic or otherwise-upon Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government . These sanctions should include banning Modi and other representatives of the BJP government from entering the UK."
Tahir Ali further demanded "(sanctions) should extend to the seizure of any UK based belonging to Modi and other BJP government figures until these abuses stop."
Monday, 8 March 2021
Sunday, 7 March 2021
"Freedom House" report is not a simple observation or assessment of health of democracy in India. The report is a toolkit to undermine Indian democracy, political leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India's democratic institutions and demonize Indian society at large. Apparently aim is to destabilize India and pave the way for regime change.
And this "Freedom House" is funded by the US government.
India can ignore or downplay this report/brazen disinformation attack at her own peril. India should ask Biden administration to disown this anti India report in toto.
Saturday, 6 March 2021
Dragon's sermon on Quad
Global Times says,"India seems to have deviated from its traditional non-alignment policy. During Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s second term, India’s economy is not doing well, and its domestic contradictions have seen a rising trend. As its border disputes with China have not been settled, anti-China voices in India still remain a force. The Modi administration intends to divert attention from its domestic contradictions by underlining China’s threat.
"Against this backdrop, India ............ (is) likely to collaborate with the US under the Quad framework."
( Yuan Zheng, Deputy Director and senior fellow of the Institute of American Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
No, Global Times, you got it all wrong. India has not deviated from its traditional non-alignment foreign policy. PLA's Himalayan folly forced India to relook at and reassess her friends and foes. More than any other country India would resist idea of Asian NATO. Remember it was China who aligned with the United States during liberation war of Bangladesh and worked closely with the US after Pokhran nuclear tests in 1998 to contain India.As far as domestic contradictions are concerned they are assets not liabilities. Lord Shiva's clan teaches India how to manage contradictions, every member of Shiva's clan has a vehicle inimical to fellow creature -bull,lion, serpent, rat and peacock etc. Prey and predator live in perfect harmony. Understand?
More over, India is a functioning anarchy with out any unitary center, so in any upheaval, the structure never collapses. Amidst million mutinies India would soon regain her status of worlds fastest growing economy.
(FYI, Indians have one thousand synonyms for Dragon, One is Anant, the divine serpent. And one of the names of Lord Vishnu is Anantshayanam- ( God who sleeps on Anant using it as bed)
Friday, 5 March 2021
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