EAM: Poland must show zero tolerance for terror

Poland should show zero tolerance for terrorism and not help fuel terrorist infrastructure in India’s neighbourhood, Jaishankar tells Polish counterpart

- Rezaul H Laskar

EAM S Jaishankar with Poland's foreign minister Radosław Sikorski.

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Poland should show zero tolerance for terrorism and not help fuel terrorist infrastructure in India’s neighbourhood, external affairs minister S Jaishankar told his Polish counterpart Radoslaw Sikorski on Monday, an apparent reference to the mention of Kashmir and terrorism ina joint statement issued by Poland and Pakistan last year.

Jaishankar pointedly raised India’s “selective targeting” by European states in the context of the war in Ukraine, describing the trend as unfair and unjustified. The comments were part of Jaishankar's televised remarks at the start of his meeting with Sikorski in New Delhi.

References to the Kashmir issue and state support for terrorism in aPakistan-Poland joint statement issued after Sikorski’s visit to Islamabad last October had not gone down well in New Delhi. During a meeting of the Weimar Triangle Plus format in Paris earlier this month that was joined by Jaishankar, Sikorski expressed satisfaction at India’s reduction of Russian oil imports “because this is financing the war machine of [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’