Afghanistan’s Overseas Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi arrived in New Delhi on Thursday for an official go to to India, targeted on discussing bilateral ties and regional issues.
Welcoming the Afghan Overseas Minister on his arrival, the Ministry of Exterior Affairs (MEA) took to X, stating, “We stay up for participating discussions with him on bilateral relations and regional points.”
Muttaqi will probably be in India till October 16. Throughout his go to, the Afghan minister is more likely to name on Exterior Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar and Nationwide Safety Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval.
Muttaqi was supposed to go to India just a few weeks in the past however had didn’t obtain a journey ban exemption from the United Nations Safety Council (UNSC).
Final week, addressing a media briefing in New Delhi, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal stated that the UNSC Committee had granted an exemption for Muttaqi’s journey to India.
“All of you’d have seen the exemption that has been granted by the UN Safety Council Committee for the journey of the Afghan Overseas Minister to New Delhi from October 9 to 16. This data is within the public area. We will maintain you up to date on this regard,” Jaiswal informed reporters.
Responding to a query on India’s situations for recognizing the present Taliban authorities, Jaiswal stated, “Now we have been having conversations with the interim authorities in Afghanistan. You’d have seen the telecon that happened a while again between the Exterior Affairs Minister and Overseas Minister Muttaqi. Additionally, we have had a dialog between the Joint Secretary in cost and his counterparts on the Afghan facet.”
New Delhi’s humanitarian help and infrastructure improvement are anticipated to be among the many vital issues mentioned in the course of the go to.
“Not too long ago, when the earthquake occurred, on the identical day, we had been capable of transport aid materials to Kunar province, and subsequently, we despatched extra aid materials through Chabahar,” Jaiswal had stated.
The go to follows a number of diplomatic engagements between New Delhi and the Taliban regime over the previous few months, together with Overseas Secretary Vikram Misri’s assembly with Muttaqi in January earlier this 12 months.
A number of key officers from Kabul have visited New Delhi in latest months, together with Afghanistan’s Deputy Minister of Drugs and Meals, Hamdullah Zahid, who was in India final month for the eleventh version of the Worldwide Exhibition on Prescription drugs and Healthcare.