Amid the India-Maldives row, officers from the Indian Excessive Fee within the Maldives met officers on the Ministry of Overseas Affairs in Male.
This comes a day after President Mohamed Muizzu mentioned Maldives can’t be bullied regardless of its small dimension.
Muizzu was on a state go to to China on the invitation of President Xi Jinping. Xi additionally hosted a state banquet for President Muizzu and First Woman Sajidha Mohamed.
“Although we have now small islands on this ocean, we have now an unlimited unique financial zone of 900,000 sq. kilometers. Maldives is among the international locations with the largest share of this ocean,” Muizzu additional mentioned.
“This ocean doesn’t belong to a selected nation. This ocean additionally belongs to all international locations located in it,” he added.
In the meantime, a diplomatic row erupted just lately over disparaging remarks made by some Maldivian deputy ministers and authorities officers in opposition to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Lakshadweep go to.
A number of Maldivian politicians, together with former presidents and ministers, too, condemned the remarks and reiterated that India was an in depth and vital companion for the island nation.
In the meantime, within the face of on-line fury and a flurry of cancellations of scheduled visits to the island nation, the Maldivian authorities distanced itself from the remarks made by its ministers.
