People-to-people ties, key agreements make India-Maldives relations outstanding: Abdulla Shahid

UN General Assembly (UNGA) President and Maldives Foreign Minister Abdulla Shahid has said that people-to-people ties and key agreements make India-Maldives relations outstanding. In an interview to a news agency, Mr Shahid said, the number of projects that have been going on and agreements that have been signed in the last few years have been outstanding.

He said, Maldives-India relationship is the highest we have seen in our bilateral history. PM Modi was in the Maldives for the swearing-in ceremony of President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, later the Maldives President also visited Delhi, he added. Mr Shahid, who is on a visit to India, also highlighted



that so far Maldives have been able to pay all its debts even in this difficult period of COVID-19 pandemic.

Underscoring that terrorism has no creed or religion and it is pure evil, UNGA President said that the world must stand united against this evil scourge. He termed India as the world’s pharmacy and said that New Delhi has reached not only the neighbouring countries but also in Latin America and the Pacific and has shown its human face of compassion. Calling out for reforms in UN governance, Mr Shahid said that the Security Council must reflect the reality of geopolitics of the current world order.