Male/New Delhi: India on Tuesday made it clear to the Maldives that no arbitrary or coercive measure should be taken in the GMR case pending the outcome of the legal proceedings, underlining that any such action would inevitably have adverse consequences for bilateral relations.
This was conveyed by External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid when his Maldivian counterpart Abdul Samad Abdullah telephoned him up in the wake of the scrapping of the airport contract to the GMR by the Maldivian government
Abdullah had mentioned that his government would not allow relations between India and Maldives to be undermined and that there was consensus on this issue, Syed Akbaruddin, the external affairs ministry spokesperson, said.
Khurshid reminded his Maldivian counterpart of his earlier discussions and stressed that "the legal processes involved in the GMR case should be permitted to take their own course based on the contractual obligations of the parties involved".
04/12/12 Business Today
