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External Affairs Minister meets families of Indian Workers held captive in Iraq

| | May 15, 2015, at 03:37 am
New Delhi, May 14 (IBNS) At the request of the families of the Indian workers held captive in Iraq, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj met them on Thursday in the Conference Hall of the Ministry at the Jawaharlal Nehru Bhawan here.
Minister of Food Processing Harsimrat Kaur Badal was also present during the meeting.
 
Swaraj assured the families that the Government was making all sincere efforts for the safe and early release of the Indian workers. 
 
She had earlier personally spoken to her counterpart Foreign Ministers in the GCC as well as other friendly countries in the region for their assistance in the safe release of Indians in captivity. 
 
She reassured the families about the well-being of the Indian nationals held captive in Iraq on the basis of information received from various sources. She also assured them that as soon as some concrete proof on the well-being of the workers is received by the Government, it would be shared with the families.
 
This was the seventh meeting Swaraj had with the families of the Indian workers.
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