New Delhi : External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Monday firmly told Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski that Warsaw should display zero tolerance for terrorism and not help fuel terrorist infrastructure in the neighbourhood. In his opening remarks at a bilateral meeting with Sikorski, Jaishankar said that the Polish Deputy Prime Minister was aware of the long-standing threat of cross-border terrorism in the region.
I hope at this meeting to discuss some of your recent travels to the region. Poland should display zero tolerance for terrorism and not help fuel the terrorist infrastructure in our neighbourhood,” Jaishankar said. Following Jaishankar’s tough remarks, Sikorski nodded in agreement and called on the need to counter cross-border terrorism. Poland, as you may have heard, has been a victim of arsons and attempted state terrorism when a Polish railway line was blown up under a moving train just very recently,” he told Jaishankar.
In the recent past, both in New York last September and in Paris this January, I have candidly shared with you our views on the Ukraine conflict and its implications. While doing so, I have also repeatedly underlined that the selective targeting of India is both unfair and unjustified. I do so again today,” he said. Jaishankar’s comments come amid ongoing friction between India and the US over Trump’s 50 per cent tariffs on New Delhi over continued buying of Russian oil, and a continued deadlock over a trade deal.
In a strong statement issued in August last year, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said that India’s energy imports are a matter of economic necessity, driven by global market shifts following the outbreak of the Ukraine war. The MEA pointed out that the US had, in fact, encouraged such imports by India to strengthen global energy markets stability. Now, without a trade deal with the US, Indian goods are already facing the highest US tariff rate of 50 per cent. Apart from a 25 per cent reciprocal duty, Trump slapped an additional 25 per cent punitive levy on India over its continued purchase of Russian oil.
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