Consultative action needed to tackle global issues: India

Us EXIT FROM ISA

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India on Friday said it was closely following developments relating to a proposed legislation by the US that sought to impose up to 500 percent tariffs on countries procuring Russian crude oil, and that the International Solar Alliance (ISA) would continue to advance its goals despite the exit of the US from the international organisation.

New Delhi also disapproved of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani writing a note to jailed activist Umar Khalid, saying public representatives should respect the independence of the judiciary in other democracies. In his handwritten note for Khalid —which the New York Mayor gave to the jailed man’s parents when they met him in the US last month — Mamdani conveyed his solidarity with him.

Addressing his weekly media briefing, India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal also expressed his concern over the killing of a woman by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis in the US.