New Delhi: India on Thursday offered Maldives an enhanced security grid, more defence equipment as well as subsidised petroleum in return for greater investment opportunities to its companies which have had a rough time in the island nation of late.
However, there was no forthright word from the visiting President Abdulla Yameen on settling disputes beyond an assurance that his new government would try to amicably resolve the row over the biggest project — the $500-million investment proposal by the Indian company GMR —- in a “broad sense.”
The relationship between the two countries suffered a setback soon after the resignation of the then President Mohd. Nasheed in February 2012 because his successor, Mohd. Waheed scrapped the GMR project for modernising and managing the Male airport. There was no resolution of the issue even though Prime Minister Manmohan Singh spoke to the then President, who had assured him that the dispute would be resolved.
02/01/14 Sandeep Dikshit/The Hindu
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However, there was no forthright word from the visiting President Abdulla Yameen on settling disputes beyond an assurance that his new government would try to amicably resolve the row over the biggest project — the $500-million investment proposal by the Indian company GMR —- in a “broad sense.”
The relationship between the two countries suffered a setback soon after the resignation of the then President Mohd. Nasheed in February 2012 because his successor, Mohd. Waheed scrapped the GMR project for modernising and managing the Male airport. There was no resolution of the issue even though Prime Minister Manmohan Singh spoke to the then President, who had assured him that the dispute would be resolved.
02/01/14 Sandeep Dikshit/The Hindu
