Foreign Minister S jaishankar makes surprise stopover in Doha to meet Qatari NSA
Doha/IBNS: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday made a surprise stop over at Qatar on his way to Kuwait and met the country's national security advisor.
Media reports said there was no prior announcement about foreign minister's transit halt in Qatar which came in the backdrop of US-Taliban negotiations taking place in the Middle Eastern country.
"A pleasure to meet Qatari NSA Mohamed Bin Ahmed Al Mesned. Appreciate his insights on developments in the region and beyond. Thanked him for the support and solidarity in India’s fight against Covid," tweeted Jaishankar.
A pleasure to meet Qatari NSA Mohamed Bin Ahmed Al Mesned. Appreciate his insights on developments in the region and beyond. Thanked him for the support and solidarity in India’s fight against Covid. pic.twitter.com/IoFIBxPy1t
— Dr. S. Jaishankar (@DrSJaishankar) June 9, 2021
Neither India nor Qatar has issued an official statement on the meeting between Jaishankar and NSA Mohamed Bin Ahmed Al Mesned.
Jaishankar is on a three-day visit to Kuwait, starting Wednesday. He is carrying Prime Minister Narendra Modi's message to emir Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah on ways to boost the bilateral ties between the two countries.
The minister will also thank Kuwait for supporting India in its covid response during April-May, when the second wave of the pandemic ravaged the country, claiming thousands of lives.
This would be the External Affairs minister's first visit to Kuwait. In March, Jaishankar's Kuwaiti counterpart Ahmed Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah visited India.
Indian Navy ships transported 425 tonnes of liquid oxygen from Kuwait. It also supplied over 5,000 oxygen cylinders, 66 oxygen concentrators, 11 ventilators and other materials such as medicines, oximeters, masks and gloves to India, said a Hindustan Times report.
Kuwait is also India's largest oil supplier and more than 900,000 Indian expatriates live there.
Jaishankar will be heading to Kenya after his Kuwait tour.
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