On the issue of Kashmir, the Minister said he spoke about it extensively when he was in the US and explained to the people there how Article 370, which provided for Jammu and Kashmir’s special status, was only a temporary provision. He also stressed how the provisions of the article, now scrapped, were misaligned with the larger scheme of things envisaged for the country.
Questioned about whether India would intervene as an official mediator in geo-political disputes around the globe the Minister said India was pursuing a type of diplomacy that was “softer, more collaborative, and more co-owned”.
“The Indian way would be very much that if you have relationships to talk about it and have conversations, but not declare yourself a mediator ... and create that profile ... I don’t think that’s really been our style,” he said.
“I would like to see Indian foreign policy have a bigger influence,” he added. “But it will require a lot of thinking through, a lot of imagination and a lot of energy, and I would like to at least prepare a launching pad for it.”
Photo courtesy: Business Today, Fortune India, Economic Times / Twitter handle of Dr. S Jaishankar
[DIDHITI GHOSH is India Columnist at La Agencia Mundial de Prensa, USA, Bureau Chief (Kolkata) of Indian Observer Post & Conference Interpreter (Spanish-English-Bengali). E-mail: didhiti.24@gmail.com | LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/2H6gNAv ].
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