Union Cabinet, Economic Affairs Committee To Meet In Delhi Today

Union Cabinet and the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs will hold a meeting in Delhi today.

Union cabinet meeting in Delhi (PTI File Photo)

New Delhi: The Union Cabinet is scheduled to hold a meeting at around 6:30 pm today. According to a report by ANI, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) will also meet in Delhi today.

This comes at a time when India's neighbouring countries are facing political and economic crises. While Pakistan is witnessing a huge political turmoil after the dissolution of the National Assembly and a hearing is going on in the Supreme Court to solve the matter, Sri Lanka is battling an emergency situation.

Sri Lanka has been plunged into political turmoil, with President Gotabaya Rajapaksa under pressure to resign as protests escalate over an economic crisis. The island nation of 22 million people is experiencing acute shortages of food, fuel, and other essentials -- along with record inflation and crippling power cuts 

 Meanwhile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday lauded the "rich level of debate" in Lok Sabha on the Ukraine situation and evacuation of Indian citizens through Operation Ganga and said there is bipartisanship on matters of foreign policy which augurs well for India at the world stage. Four union ministers - Hardeep Singh Puri, Kiren Rijiju, Jyotiraditya Scindia and Gen VK Singh - who went to countries neighbouring Ukraine as Prime Minister Narendra Modi's special envoys during the evacuation effort also took part in the debate.

Congress members talked of the relevance of principles of non-alignment in the complex geopolitical situation created by the Ukraine-Russia crisis. In his reply to the debate, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said India is "first and foremost" strongly against the conflict. He said no solution can be arrived at by shedding blood, and at the cost of innocent lives and in this day and age, dialogue and diplomacy are the right answers to any dispute.

The minister said the contemporary global order has been built on the UN Charter, on respect for international law, and for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all states.

"If India has chosen a side, it is the side of peace, and it is for an immediate end to violence. This is our principled stand, and it has consistently guided our position in international forums and debates including in the United Nations," Jaishankar said.

Other than this, India is also providing food and fuel to Sri Lanka to help them cope with the ongoing economic crisis in the Island Nation, Minister of State for External Affairs Dr Rajkumar Ranjan informed on Monday.