EAM Jaishankar Thanks Countries for Condemning Pahalgam Attack

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, while delivering his opening remarks at the 4th India-Central Asia Dialogue, thanked the Central Asian countries for their support in condemning the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack.

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"I appreciate that your countries stood by India and condemned the heinous terrorist attack that took place in April in Pahalgam," Jaishankar said.

Jaishankar acknowledged that India's ties with Central Asian countries have evolved over several millennia.

"We have marked three decades of our contemporary diplomatic ties with our Central Asian partners in 2022. We have worked together and laid down the legal and institutional framework, which has provided the foundation to further our mutually beneficial cooperation with each other individually, as well as collectively. Our cooperation with Central Asian countries received a quantum boost with Prime Minister Modi's back-to-back visits to all five Central Asian capitals in July 2015," he recounted.

Jaishankar said that ties with these countries have evolved significantly from civilizational bonds.