CHINA-INDIA: RIC COMMUNIQUE ON FEBRUARY 27, REFERS TO TERRORIST ATTACK ON INDIA
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The communique issued after the 16th Russia, India and China (RIC) Foreign Ministerial Meeting held in Wuzhen, East China's Zhejiang Province on February 27, 2019, was the first following its surgical airstrike inside Pakistan on the previous day. The official Global Times reported that the RIC Foreign Ministers had "strongly condemned terrorism in all its forms and manifestations" and that "they also stressed that terrorist groups cannot be supported and used in political and geopolitical goals." The Global Times observed that the RIC meeting "gave New Delhi an apt platform to explain and engage China which is not only the closest friend of Pakistan but also seen as the world's second most important power." Another Global Times report of February 27, made no reference to the situation between India and Pakistan.
(Comment: This meeting followed the UN Security Council's February 21 statement which "condemned in the strongest terms the heinous and cowardly suicide bombing in Jammu and Kashmir.") |