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NICOSIA: Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said that terrorism cannot be used as a tool to force India on the “negotiating table”. His remarks, made while interacting with the Indian diaspora in Cyprus, has been seen as a veiled attack on Pakistan.
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.
He further said “the second, of course, is our borders. And we have challenges on our borders. The challenges on the borders intensified during the COVID period. And you all know that today the state of our relations with China is not normal. They are not normal because we will not agree to any attempt to change the Line of Actual Control (LAC) unilaterally. So on the foreign policy side, on the national security side, I can share with you a picture of firmness on diplomacy, on foreign policy, because that is something which I am,” he added.