"Spoke to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Conveyed our deepest condolences on the loss of lives in the horrific terrorist attack in Moscow," Jaishankar wrote on the social media platform.
During his recent visit to India, New Zealand's Dy PM Peters spoke to a newspaper and underscored Canada, which is also a partner of "Five Eyes", did not share enough evidence to substantiate its claims against New Delhi.
The Chinese side said that Beijing has stressed multiple times that the boundary question does not represent the entirety of the China-India relations, which should be placed appropriately in the bilateral relations and managed properly.
India-China relations remain frozen since May 2020 after the Galwan border clash near the Line of Actual Control, despite several rounds of high-level military talks. Jaishankar on Monday said India is committed to a fair outcome but one respectful of agreements recognising the LAC.
In the Nikkei Forum, the external affairs minister said people had the tendency to "cherry-pick principles" while defending India's relationship with Moscow. Jaishankar is currently on the second leg of his two-nation visit in Japan after his concluding his visit to South Korea.
Addressing an event in Japan, EAM Jaishankar said, "That is why for India, in a changing world, our own equilibrium, our own balances with other countries are changing as well. They don't have to be acrimonious, but the balance is changing."
"We have learnt about the tragic death of an Indian national Shri Mohammed Asfan. We are in touch with the family and Russian authorities," the Indian Embassy in Russia wrote on X.
In the 105-second video, one of the seven men, who was identified as 19-year-old Harsh from Haryana's Karnal explained how they were inducted into the army and were later sent to the front zone without their consent.
The Indian government has also issued multiple contact details of the embassy and other officials which could assist the Indians in case of any emergency in the midst of the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.
Jaishankar recently said relations between India and Russia have always been stable and friendly and defended India's decision to import Russian oil in the outbreak of the Ukraine conflict. Lavrov compared Jaishankar's defence as "national dignity".
Taking to the social media platform, External Affairs Minister, Dr S Jaishankar extended condolence and said India stood with the families of those killed in the tragic fire incident.
EAM Jaishankar made the remark while addressing the Pandit Hriday Nath Kunzru Memorial Lecture 2024 on 'Bharat and the World' at the Jawaharlal Nehru University.
The external affairs minister said India had to suspend the issuance of visas in Canada as its diplomats were repeatedly "threatened and intimidated in many ways" and we "got very little comfort from the Canadian system that time".
India strongly condemned the terror attack by Hamas on October 7 last year. “At the same time, we must be clear that terrorism and hostage-taking are unacceptable,” Jaihankar said in his address via video link from New Delhi.
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), in a statement released in the early morning, retreated it was aware of the subject and added the matter was taken up strongly with the concerned Russian authorities in Moscow and New Delhi.
Earlier, MEA Spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal acknowledged that the ministry was aware that some Indians were recruited by some agents who later duped them into combating role in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war.
Jaishankar noted that the Quad is facilitated by the emergence of the Indo-Pacific, adding it is propelled by a change in the global order that requires "more" and "not less collaboration".
Jaishankar highlighted that the immediate issue between India and China is Beijing's departure from border agreements in the 1980s which later triggered the border dispute in Ladakh. He also said there will come a period when the Chinese economy will flatten and India will be growing.
Jaishankar highlighted that Europe shifted to the Middle East for energy procurement and that India cannot share the same view as European countries on Russia. He also highlighted that Western countries preferred Pakistan over India for arms supply, but the trend has changed in the last decade.
Jaishankar has been giving befitting replies to the West on energy imports from Russia amid the ongoing war. He, recently, said that Europe has imported six times the fossil fuel energy from Russia than India has done since February 2022.
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