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Ahmedabad: Highlighting political remarks by the US, Germany and the UN on Indian politics after the arrest of Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, external affairs minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday said “we are sovereign countries and should not be interfering in each other’s internal affairs”.
Speaking to journalists in Ahmedabad, Jaishankar said, “…These are old habits.These are bad habits… The word I use is maryada among countries, we are sovereign countries. We should not be interfering in each other’s internal affairs. We should not be passing comments about each other’s politics.”
“Because once, if this becomes a rule, where do you stop? So we have, in the cases where it has happened, told diplomats of that country very clearly that we take very strong objection to it,” the minister said. Jaishankar emphasised that other countries do not hold any right to comment on another country’s politics.
“We think this is not a good practice. And we would sincerely urge all countries in the world to say that you please, by all means, can have your views about the world. But no country has the right to comment on another country’s politics, especially in situations like this,” he said.
Last week, US state department spokesperson Mathew Miller was asked about his response to India summoning a US diplomat over comments on Kejriwal’s arrest and freezing of Congress’s bank accounts, to which he said that they were following these actions closely. “And we encourage fair, transparent and timely legal processes for each of these issues,” he stressed.
Stating that India is proud of its “robust and independent” democratic institutions, the foreign ministry termed the remarks “unwarranted”, adding that “any such external imputation on our electoral and legal processes is completely unacceptable”.
Prior to this, India had summoned the German deputy chief of mission in New Delhi to lodge a strong protest against their foreign office spokesperson’s remarks on the arrest of the Delhi chief minister.
Speaking to journalists in Ahmedabad, Jaishankar said, “…These are old habits.These are bad habits… The word I use is maryada among countries, we are sovereign countries. We should not be interfering in each other’s internal affairs. We should not be passing comments about each other’s politics.”
“Because once, if this becomes a rule, where do you stop? So we have, in the cases where it has happened, told diplomats of that country very clearly that we take very strong objection to it,” the minister said. Jaishankar emphasised that other countries do not hold any right to comment on another country’s politics.
“We think this is not a good practice. And we would sincerely urge all countries in the world to say that you please, by all means, can have your views about the world. But no country has the right to comment on another country’s politics, especially in situations like this,” he said.
Last week, US state department spokesperson Mathew Miller was asked about his response to India summoning a US diplomat over comments on Kejriwal’s arrest and freezing of Congress’s bank accounts, to which he said that they were following these actions closely. “And we encourage fair, transparent and timely legal processes for each of these issues,” he stressed.
Stating that India is proud of its “robust and independent” democratic institutions, the foreign ministry termed the remarks “unwarranted”, adding that “any such external imputation on our electoral and legal processes is completely unacceptable”.
Prior to this, India had summoned the German deputy chief of mission in New Delhi to lodge a strong protest against their foreign office spokesperson’s remarks on the arrest of the Delhi chief minister.
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