Venkaiah Naidu meets Afghan Prez Ashraf Ghani during NAM summit

Vice President of India Venkaiah Naidu and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on sidelines of n-Aligned Movement (NAM) Ministerial Meeting. meeting was conducted in Baku on Friday. Naidu and Jaishankar have traveled to Baku to attend 18th summit of NAM which is said to be attended by as many as two dozen heads of state and governments from 120 countries across world. summit that kicked off on Friday is based on me ‘Upholding Bandung Principles to ensure concerted and adequate response to challenges of contemporary world’. India is a founding member of NAM, which is said to be second-largest garing of world leaders after United Nations.  

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Vice President meets several world leaders

Naidu on Friday met several of world leaders, including Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. In his address at summit, Vice President called on all NAM countries to come toger to build a common front against terror in all its forms as re was justification for violent extremist ideologies and terrorist actions that maim and murders incents. Naidu also hit out at Pakistan for misusing summit to justify Islamabad's longstanding policy of conducting cross-border terrorism against its neighbors.

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Addressed Indian Diaspora ahead of summit

Ahead of NAM summit, Vice President also addressed Indian diaspora in Azerbaijan. While addressing community, Naidu gave a detailed account of recent developments that have taken place in Jammu and Kashmir after abrogation of article 370 and also explained idea behind abrogation. "It is a step to extend to people of state all benefits being enjoyed by or Indian citizens. It is a step that was supported by an overwhelming majority in Parliament. It is a step towards development," Naidu said.

He also insisted on Indian diaspora to understand motive behind abrogation and te issue in correct perspective by disregarding distorted versions by a certain section of media.

(With ANI Inputs)

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