Taking a robust view of pro-Khalistan supporters knocking down the Indian tricolour on the Indian High Commission withinside the United Kingdom, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday stated India could now no longer be given differential requirements of safety.
He additionally accused the United Kingdom of now no longer assembly the duty of imparting safety to the diplomats of the Mission, that is anticipated of a rustic in which a excessive fee or a consulate is located.
“On the flag and the safety of the excessive fee, on this specific case withinside the UK – on every occasion any usa sends an embassy everywhere abroad, it’s miles the duty of the receiving usa to offer safety for a diplomat to do his work.
“It is the duty of the receiving usa to make sure the embassy or the excessive fee or the consulate and their premises are respected. These duties had been now no longer met,” Mr Jaishankar stated at an occasion organised via way of means of Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi Surya.
Replying to a query on the problem of chance to the diplomats and the Indian diaspora withinside the UK, the Minister stated that at the day the vandals regarded earlier than the excessive fee, the safety on the excessive fee didn’t meet anticipated requirements.
“Many nations are very informal approximately it (safety). They have a completely one of a kind view approximately their very own safety and a one of a kind view approximately different people`s safety, however I can inform you as a overseas minister that we aren’t going to just accept this type of differential requirements,” the EAM stated.
In the context of Rahul Gandhi’s comments withinside the UK concerning human rights in India, Mr Jaishankar stated aleven though the majority of individuals who held Indian passports had been deeply connected to the usa, there had been a small variety of those who could declare to be persecuted of their domestic nations which will get a visa or residential status.
“Now you’ve got got a small variety of people (who) from time to time misuse it and say ‘I am being politically persecuted and, therefore, permit me to stay’. So, it is absolutely a visa game, which they’re gambling withinside the call of politics, human rights or anything it’s miles,” the Minister stated.
He suggested that adversaries of the usa may want to misuse the situation. Nobody changed into arguing in opposition to freedom of speech and civil liberties, he stated, “however those have to now no longer be misused to espouse radicalism, violence, terrorism”. He additionally stated there has been a distinction among having rights and misusing them.
