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1. India’s External Affairs Minister, Dr. S. Jaishankar, France’s Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Mr. Jean-Yves Le Drian and Australia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator the Hon’ Marise Payne, met in London for the first India-France-Australia Trilateral Ministerial Dialogue on 4 May 2021, on the sidelines of the G7 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting.
2. India, France and Australia are committed to advancing their shared values and working together to achieve a free, open, inclusive and rules-based Indo-Pacific. The Ministers reaffirmed their support for the rule of law, freedom of navigation and overflight, peaceful resolution of disputes, democratic values, and respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity. They reaffirmed their commitment to ASEAN’s centrality and their support for ASEAN’s Outlook on the Indo-Pacific, and noted its complementarity with India’s Indo-Pacific Oceans Initiative. They welcomed the Fren
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The international community has voiced protest against China s new moves in the East Sea, including its enforcement of a fishing ban on the sea area covering part of the Gulf of Tonkin and Vietnam’s Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago.
Chinese ships in the East Sea (Photo: VNA)
The fishing ban that took effect in May as the international community condemned China s continued deployment of ships to Bai Ba Dau (Whitsun Reef) in Vietnam’s Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago.
The Philippines has sent two more diplomatic protests to China, saying that the continued swarming and threatening presence of the Chinese vessels creates an atmosphere of instability and is a blatant disregard of the commitments by China to promote peace and stability in the region.
Indian cos shipping to Central Europe will find route through Koper ideal: Slovenia s Foreign Minister
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The Port of Koper is the Mediterranean northernmost gateway to Central Europe. Indian companies that want to ship their products to customers in Central Europe will therefore find the route through Koper ideal, Slovenia s Foreign Minister Dr Anze Logar told ET s Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury ahead of May 8 India-EU Summit.
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The Central European state of Slovenia s main attractions is its geographical position between Italy and Austria. It is a Central European and a Mediterranean country. The Port of Koper is the Mediterranean northernmost gateway to Central Europe. Indian companies that want to ship their products to customers in Central Europe will therefore find the route through Koper ideal, Slovenia s Foreign Minister Dr Anze Logar told ET s
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May 4, 2021
On May 8 India’s prime minister and the heads of state of all 27 EU countries will meet for a historic Leaders’ Meeting. This is the first time that an Indian leader will participate in such a meeting. In fact, the format is rarely used and offered by the EU. Such a meeting was supposed to take place last year with China’s President Xi Jinping under different circumstances but, with new tensions in the EU-Chinese partnership after the coronavirus crisis, it was reduced to a different, much smaller format. This unprecedented meeting marks a turning point for the Europe-India relationship, and the culmination of sustained efforts by New Delhi to invest more diplomatic resources in Europe, reversing years of political neglect. It also reflects a marked change of tone and posture in Brussels and other European capitals, which seem keen to invest much more effort into ties with India.
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A burning pyre at a makeshift crematorium in Delhi, India on 1 May (Mayank Makhija/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Published 3 May 2021 13:30 0 Comments
Watching a Hindu cremation, in which the body is burned on an open funeral pyre, is a profoundly confronting experience. The body is placed onto a cement platform. A pyre is built around it, with wood stacked in a triangular tunnel to allow the fire to breathe. Ghee is scattered around the structure to help the flames along. As you watch the fire burn and with bits of ash flying high and all around, you grieve and reflect, but as it grounds down and the deceased returns to the earth, you pass over into acceptance. It is raw, primal and earthy – but it is above all, deeply soulful.