{"id":452134,"date":"2021-11-26T12:15:55","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T06:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=452134"},"modified":"2021-11-26T13:17:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T07:47:48","slug":"jaishankar-on-chinas-bri-connectivity-initiatives-must-respect-sovereignty-territorial-integrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/jaishankar-on-chinas-bri-connectivity-initiatives-must-respect-sovereignty-territorial-integrity\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaishankar on China\u2019s BRI: \u2018Connectivity initiatives must respect sovereignty, territorial integrity\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a reference to China\u2019s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), External Affairs minister S Jaishankar on Thursday said \u201cany serious connectivity initiative must be transparent and conform to the most basic principle of respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jaishankar made these comments during a virtual address at a meeting of the SCO Council of Heads of Government on Thursday. India has been critical of the BRI as the USD 500-billion corridor passes through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that repeated attempts to deliberately bring bilateral issues into the SCO violate the laid down principles of the grouping and such counter-productive acts should be \u201ccondemned\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a reference to China\u2019s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), External Affairs minister S Jaishankar on Thursday said \u201cany serious connectivity initiative must be transparent and conform to the most basic principle of respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity.\u201d Jaishankar made these comments during a virtual address at a meeting of the SCO Council of Heads of Government on Thursday. India has been critical of the BRI as the USD 500-billion corridor passes through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. He also said that repeated attempts to deliberately bring bilateral issues into the SCO violate the laid down principles of the grouping and such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}