External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar instructed the Lok Sabha on Friday that India’s Chabahar port challenge has not been affected by US sanctions on Iran.
Responding to a query by BSP member Ritesh Pandey, the minister additionally clarified that the US sanctions for India’s Chabahar port challenge in Iran are “not relevant”.
During Question Hour, Pandey sought to know from the federal government whether or not US sanctions on Iran had any affect on India’s challenge at Chabahar port, and claimed that the Iranian authorities is “publicly saying that our Chabahar port project has a lot to offer.” There has been a delay”. US-imposed sanctions”.
The BSP member additionally claimed that he “knows” that China is attempting to work on the challenge by making the most of US sanctions on Iran, because it did “with the rail link”, and requested the federal government whether or not She is engaged on a “solution”. ,
“I would like to inform the member that (his) claim is completely false. The agreement was signed in 2016. We occupied the terminal in 2018. We have already supplied six cranes. The terminal is fully functional,” stated Minister Jaishankar.
“US sanctions are not relevant to this project at all,” he stated in his reply.
In a supplementary query, the BSP member sought to know from the federal government whether or not India would proceed utilizing the Chabahar port to supply assist to Central Asian nations and Afghanistan after the Taliban took management of the Afghan authorities “through any backdoor”. Agreement” is signed.
“All our agreements on Chabahar port operation are limited to Iran. Originally, there was a tripartite agreement but this was the basis for setting it up. In terms of port operations, we do not need to have any agreement with the Government of Afghanistan. And, I assure you that the port is working and back to work,” stated the External Affairs Minister in his reply.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
