Question: There were reports of some Indians being detained in Kuwait. Can we have the status on it? Have they been released?

'Kuwait's policy is not to target Indians per se'

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Akbar, the external affairs minister this morning said that India is addressing the issue of incursion by China 'in an appropriate manner' and that 'we do not want any departure from proportionality'. Could you please define proportionality?  Is incursion of a platoon strength contingent of the Chinese army or indeed any foreign army inside 10 km of the territory proportionately speaking a small matter? What is proportionality in this case?Your question addresses the military aspects but let me try and address what we have done so far and how we pursue this incident because I think that would be more appropriate for me as the spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs to answer, and I think you will have a reasonably good idea of how we are approaching this entire issue. The ongoing incident that you have mentioned refers to an incident in the Depsang area of the western sector of the India-China boundary. We see this as a face-to-face situation between border personnel of the tw

'India-China border areas continue to remain peaceful'

Question: My question is related to Sri Lanka. There has been Chinese-Sri Lankan collaboration going on in the area of space, and they are going to launch a communications satellite among other things. India's National Security Council called on March 25 for an inter-ministerial consultation to decide on possible approaches to protect Indian interests in the neighbourhood. I was just wondering, because it has been about a week since that consultation, whether you had any feedback on the consultation and what was discussed.Official Spokesperson of the External Affairs Ministry, Syed Akbaruddin: I think we follow a norm here. I do not respond on inter-ministerial issues of a nature which we have not conducted. If you say this is conducted by the National Security Council, I would direct you to please contact the National Security Council Secretariat and get a response from it on this matter. I have said previously, inter-ministerial discussions are normal in any country, in any democracy

Syed Akbaruddin

Syed Akbaruddin

Syed Akbaruddin

'Kuwait's policy is not to target Indians per se'

'India-China border areas continue to remain peaceful'

'We do not share a competitive relation with Sri Lanka'