Volume III, Issue 3 | - March 2022

The joint statement issued at the end of the meeting called on the international community to provide humanitarian assistance and sought a “central role of Afghanistan in distributing and using humanitarian assistance.”15 The second meeting was between the ‘Extended Troika’ comprising China, Russia, the U. [...] He emphasized the need to make speedy progress on the finalization of a BIMSTEC FTA, to develop a legal framework for a ‘Coastal Shipping Ecosystem’ in the Bay of Bengal, to reactivate the ‘BIMSTEC Center for Weather and Climate’, and to the strengthen the legal framework for combatting terrorism, transnational crime and non traditional threats. [...] These include the joint development of the Trincomalee Oil Farms and the energy projects in the north and east to be set up by the NTPC and the Adani Group. [...] Jaishankar welcomed these interactions and emphasized that the Government of India was consistently supportive of the realization of the aspirations of the Tamils of Sri Lanka for equality, justice, peace and dignity within the framework of a united Sri Lanka. [...] Unlike his predecessor, the Foreign Minister of Brunei, he did not set any preconditions for the visit, with the agenda revolving around the ‘five point of consensus’ agreed to by the ASEAN leaders and the junta, including the immediate cessation of violence against civilians and a constructive dialogue involving all parties to the conflict.