AMN /New Delhi
India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today said India’s ties with the countries of West Asia were robust as never before, proving wrong those who believed that the country’s priority regarding the Muslim nations of the region would change under the Modi Government.
“When our Government came, experts of foreign affairs said West Asia will be out of focus.
If I talk of regional relations today, we have the best of ties with West Asia,’’ Ms Swaraj said at a press conference on three years of the Modi Government here.
She underscored that India had equally good relations with even those countries of West Asia which were at loggers head with each other — like for example Saudi Arabia and Iran, and Israel and Palestine.
‘Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who recently visited India, said we could use our friendship with Israel in resolving the problem between the two nations,” she said.