New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has written to seven states asking them to take quick measures on the issue of attacks on African nationals both in terms of police action and prosecution, underlining that such individual acts reflect on the nation.
Mrs Swaraj on Monday had written a letter to the chief ministers of Karnataka, Maharashtra, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana and Goa, where there is large presence of African students, asking them to take quick action in such cases, Secretary, Economic Relations, Amar Sinha said, adding the attacks have been condemned at the highest level.
"Our EAM (Swaraj) is very proactively engaging with all the ambassadors. She has met students also...Only yesterday she has written to several chief ministers...to sensitise them that these are individual acts but they reflect on the nation," Mr Sinha said.
"There is a need to take quick measures in terms of police action and follow up in terms of prosecution when such incidents take place," he said.
The Secretary was asked whether the attacks will cast a shadow over the upcoming visit of President Pranab Mukherjee to three African countries of Ghana, Ivory Coast and Namibia from June 12.
"...We have engaged with the African students here very very closely. We are also setting up a monitoring mechanism so that after the first two days of the incident, we don't lose the sight of it. African ambassdors are satisfied with the action taken by the Indian government...," he said.
"We don't feel this will cast a shadow over the relations between India and the African countries, Sinha said.
"Our relationship is built on a much solid foundation.
These governments and their authorities understand that this is not driven by state policies. State policy is just the opposite.
"So they will not hold the President or highest office bearers of the country resposible for the acts that are very criminal in nature," he said.
Mrs Swaraj on Monday had written a letter to the chief ministers of Karnataka, Maharashtra, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Telangana and Goa, where there is large presence of African students, asking them to take quick action in such cases, Secretary, Economic Relations, Amar Sinha said, adding the attacks have been condemned at the highest level.
"There is a need to take quick measures in terms of police action and follow up in terms of prosecution when such incidents take place," he said.
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"...We have engaged with the African students here very very closely. We are also setting up a monitoring mechanism so that after the first two days of the incident, we don't lose the sight of it. African ambassdors are satisfied with the action taken by the Indian government...," he said.
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"Our relationship is built on a much solid foundation.
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"So they will not hold the President or highest office bearers of the country resposible for the acts that are very criminal in nature," he said.
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