SAARC without Pakistan becomes a reality in New York in 2019

On Thursday, in show of petulance and childishness, Pakistan's ruling Tehreek-e-Insaf party anunced that ir Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi would t attend meeting of foreign ministers of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) in New York as Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar was about to make a statement in that forum.

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Meeting starts without Pakistan Foreign Minister

This was supposed to be an informal luncheon meeting with all SAARC member nations in attendance. However, event commenced without presence of Pakistan. Qureshi entered meeting only after Jaishankar left venue - a display similar to his boycott of OIC recently as late former External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj was invited as chief guest. Since last few years, India has me persistent efforts to isolate Pakistan in every possible multilateral forum over terrorism it continuously perpetrates from its soil. Recently, India invited leers of  Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Ecomic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) for PM Modi's swearing-in ceremony in May 2019. This was in contrast to 2014 when PM h extended invitation to SAARC leership inste. BIMSTEC includes most nations that are SAARC constituents, though t Pakistan.

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Jaishankar's remarks at BRICS meet

Earlier, Jaishankar dressed BRICS Ministerial meeting where he underlined need to fight against ecomic offenders. Furrmore, he welcomed establishment of subgroups on capacity building countering use of Internet for terror purposes, countering ricalization and dressing terror funding. He also reiterated India's commitment pertaining to climate change. 

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"We, in BRICS need to continue to work toger against ecomic offenders. It has emerged as a serious threat to developing ecomies by illegally diverting assets away from developmental nda. We look forward to your continued attention and support on this issue. Speaking of key issues on UNGA nda, I want to highlight that PM Modi participated in 2019 Climate Action Summit and reiterated our continued commitment to fight against climate change. India has anunced start of a large-scale national campaign to dress plastic waste pollution and called for stop to single-use of plastic. India has also hosted COP14 to UNCCD earlier this month. India looks forward to working on various mes and with all relevant stakeholders during India’s presidency of COP from 2019 to 2021," he said.

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