Jaishankar-Doval not to attend the BRICS meeting on April 30; Agenda to be decided for July
BRICS: After the Pahalgam terrorist attack, bitterness has spread in the relations between India and Pakistan. As a result, Foreign Minister S Jaishankar and National Security Advisor Ajit Doval will not attend the BRICS meeting to be held on April 30. The agenda is to be decided in this meeting for the conference to be held in July.
After the horrific terrorist attack on Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir, India and Pakistan have escalated tension. S Jaishankar and Ajit Doval will miss the Foreign Ministers- National Security Advisors (NSA) meeting of the BRICS countries scheduled for Brazil. Indian Sherpa will represent India in their stead.
In this meeting scheduled on Wednesday, the agenda of July's BRICS conference needs to be decided. Indeed, after this terror attack of barbaric kind, India has declared retaliation. In this chain of actions, besides the diplomatic move against Pakistan, the security forces have initiated a drive against the terrorists of Jammu and Kashmir. Besides the diplomatic move, a series of meetings are underway for ensuring the other measures.
After Prime Minister Narendra Modi's announcement of giving a bigger punishment than imaginable to the culprits of Pahalgam, there is a lot of speculation about future action. According to government sources, after this attack, Jaishankar and Doval are very important among those who monitor the wider security concerns. They have to participate in meetings continuously. This is the reason why the Foreign Minister and NSA will not participate in the meeting on April 30.
The agenda of the BRICS conference to be held in July is to be finalized in the meeting of BRICS foreign ministers and NSA. Broad topics like climate change, Russia-Ukraine war, AI, cross border payment initiative, reforms in multilateral institutions are to be discussed in the conference.
