India reached out to countries across world on CAA, NRC: MEA
India has reached out to countries across the world on the issues of the new citizenship law and the proposed National Register of Citizens, the ministry of external affairs said on Thursday (January 2).
India has reached out to countries across the world on the issues of the new citizenship law and the proposed National Register of Citizens, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Thursday (January 2).
“We did reach out to countries across the globe on Citizenship Amendment Act and the NRC,” MEA Spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said at a media briefing.
Raveesh Kumar, MEA: We did reach out to countries across all geographical regions, we did write to our missions to share our prospective on #CitizenshipAmendmentAct and National Register of Citizens with the host government. pic.twitter.com/lR7YqJUCKv
— ANI (@ANI) January 2, 2020
“We emphasised that the Act (CAA) just expedites acquiring of citizenship to persecuted minorities. It does not change the basic structure of Constitution,” he said.
Raveesh Kumar, MEA on India-Japan Summit: We are in touch with the Japanese side, we do hope that very soon we will come to finalisation of the date. pic.twitter.com/tAXZmDIKuf
— ANI (@ANI) January 2, 2020
On when the India-Japan summit, which was postponed following protests in Guwahati last month, will be held, Kumar said the dates for it will be finalised soon.
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