ABU DHABI: Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, who arrived right here on Sunday, met his UAE counterpart Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan and the 2 leaders are anticipated to debate bilateral financial cooperation and problems with mutual and regional curiosity.
“Delighted to fulfill FM @ABZayed. Sit up for our discussions,” Jaishankar tweeted.
Apparently, Jaishankar’s go to coincides with the continuing journey of his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi to the United Arab Emirates amid media reviews that the Gulf emirate has been holding again channel talks to restart dialogue between the 2 neighbours.
Jaishankar earlier paid a two-day go to to the UAE from November 25 to 26 within the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
Throughout his go to, he had met his UAE counterpart Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan and held discussions on your complete vary of bilateral points.
“On the invitation of his counterpart, EAM @DrSJaishankar can be visiting Abu Dhabi on 18th April 2021. His discussions will give attention to financial cooperation and group welfare,” Exterior Affairs Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi tweeted on Saturday.
Jaishankar’s present go to to Abu Dhabi comes days after the Emirati ambassador to the US Yousef al-Otaiba stated that the UAE performed a job in bringing down the strain between India and Pakistan and getting their bilateral ties again to a “wholesome useful relationship”.
“They may not type of turn out to be greatest buddies however no less than we wish to get it to a degree the place it is useful, the place it is operational, the place they’re talking to one another,” al-Otaiba stated throughout a digital dialogue with Stanford College’s Hoover Establishment on Wednesday.
Qureshi is within the UAE on a three-day go to throughout which he’ll maintain discussions with the nation’s management on all areas of bilateral cooperation together with collaboration in commerce and funding.
In Islamabad, Pakistan’s International Workplace stated that Qureshi will meet his counterpart Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan and different UAE dignitaries.
The visits of the 2 leaders are main hypothesis as UAE’s international minister will maintain talks together with his counterparts from India and Pakistan.
India and Pakistan in a shock announcement stated on February 25 that they’ve agreed to strictly observe all agreements on ceasefire alongside the Line of Management (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir and different sectors.
When requested concerning the media reviews of backchannel talks between India and Pakistan, Exterior Affairs Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi didn’t give a direct reply.
“If you happen to discuss channels of communication on this situation, let me simply recall that our respective excessive commissions exist and are functioning. So that could be a very efficient channel of communication,” Bagchi stated on April 9.
India has advised Pakistan that it wishes regular neighbourly relations with Islamabad in an atmosphere freed from terror, hostility and violence.
India has stated the onus is on Pakistan to create an atmosphere freed from terror and hostility.
On the identical day, Pakistan International Workplace spokesman stopped in need of categorically denying its involvement in some sort of backchannel talks with India.
International Workplace spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhry on the weekly press briefing on April 9 was requested by a number of journalists about reported backchannel talks with India.
As a substitute of rejecting it outrightly he stated: “States have their methods and means to speak which stay accessible even throughout wars. Subsequently, whether or not any talks are happening between India and Pakistan shouldn’t be necessary.”
He added that the true situation was what must be mentioned between the 2 international locations and the way the dialogue may very well be made significant and result-oriented dialogue.
Ties between India and Pakistan nose-dived after a terror assault on the Pathankot Air Power base in 2016 by terror teams based mostly within the neighbouring nation.
Subsequent assaults, together with one on Indian Military camp in Uri, additional deteriorated the connection.
The connection dipped additional after India’s struggle planes pounded a Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist coaching camp deep inside Pakistan on February 26, 2019 in response to the Pulwama terror assault during which 40 CRPF jawans have been killed.
The relations deteriorated after India introduced withdrawing particular powers of Jammu and Kashmir and bifurcation of the state into two union territories in August, 2019.
Final month, Pakistan’s highly effective Military chief Normal Qamar Javed Bajwa stated that it was time for India and Pakistan to “bury the previous and transfer ahead as he asserted that the peace between the 2 neighbours would assist to “unlock” the potential of South and Central Asia.
The highly effective military, which has dominated Pakistan for greater than half of its 72 plus years of existence, has hitherto wielded appreciable energy within the issues of safety and international coverage.
Gen Bajwa’s remarks got here a day after Prime Minister Imran Khan made an analogous assertion.
