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| December 30, 2009 | India is a safe country, Krishna tells foreigners | | New Delhi: Reacting to travel alerts issued by the US and the UK to
their citizens visiting India, External Affairs Minister SM Krishna on Wednesday reiterated that India is a safe country. Interacting with the media here, Krishna
said the US and UK have recommended that their citizens defer all non-essential
travel to southern Andhra Pradesh, which is witnessing violence over the demand
of a separate state Telangana. Krishna also assured foreign visitors that they
are totally safe in the country. "India is a very safe country; you can find thousands
of foreigners who have been freely going about wherever they feel like. I would
like to assure the foreign tourists, visitors and others that they don't have
to worry about it," Krishna said. He also said that India wants to maintain cordial
relations with China, even after China agreed to supply 36 J-10 fighter aircraft
to India's arch-foe Pakistan. "Let us not get it into another speculative area.
I have said that and I want to repeat it again in the dying days of 2009 that
India-China border is peaceful, it is tranquillised and it is India's desire to
maintain and tranquillity at our border and we will continue to do it," Krishna
noted. Mentioning Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor's statement
on the visa policy that he spelt out in the free social networking and micro-blogging
service - Twitter, Krishna said: "There could be certain perceptions as I have
said in my statement earlier." "There are different perceptions and I think that
there are methods and procedures where we could sort out those issues and I am
sure that Mr. Tharoor understands that," he added. | |
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