Prime Minister Narendra Modi has arrived in Cyprus on his first visit to the Mediterranean country on Sunday. Upon his arrival, he was received by the President of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulides.
PM Modi was seen being greeted by the diaspora with bouquets as he arrived at his hotel and the Prime Minister also engaged with the diaspora, exchanging greetings and acknowledging their support.
The PM, who embarked from New Delhi early this morning, reached Larnaca International Airport and was received by the President of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulides.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday congratulated Nikos Christodoulides on being elected as the new president of Cyprus and said he looked forward to working with him to enhance India's ties with his country.
Jaishankar said, "We will never normalize it. We will never allow terrorism to force us to the negotiating table. We want good neighbourly relations with everybody. But good neighbourly relations do not mean excusing or looking away or rationalizing terrorism. That we are very clear."
External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar on Friday said that reforms measures taken by the Modi government during the peak of the COVID pandemic have resulted in the highest-ever FDI flows in the country's history and the creation of the largest start-up ecosystem in the world.
Addressing the Business Event in Cyprus, Jaishankar said the technological and infrastructure progress that India has made in the last few years, has clearly created a "greater appetite in the world for investing in India."
Cyprus on Thursday thanked India for supporting the mandate of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP), wherein Security Council expressed concern over unauthorized activities in the buffer zone separating Greek and Turkish communities in the northern and southern regions o