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Business News/ News / India/  J-K: Foreign envoys reach Srinagar to assess situation since DDC polls, abrogation of Article 370
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J-K: Foreign envoys reach Srinagar to assess situation since DDC polls, abrogation of Article 370

The 20-member delegation is expected to interact with representatives of civil society and the government during the visit

Envoys from 24 nations are part of the delegation visiting the UT.Premium
Envoys from 24 nations are part of the delegation visiting the UT.

A delegation of European Union envoys of 24 diplomats from foreign missions, including the EU, arrived in Srinagar on Wednesday. The envoys are on a two-day visit to Kashmir and Jammu regions in the Union Territory for assessing the situation following the scrapping of its special status in 2019.

The 20-member delegation, who arrived amid heightened security arrangements, is expected to interact with representatives of civil society and the government during the visit.

Foreign diplomats from Chile, Brazil, Cuba, Bolivia, Estonia, Finland, France, Ireland, Netherlands, Portugal, Belgium, Spain, Sweden, Italy, Bangladesh, Malawi, Eritrea, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Senegal, Malaysia, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and the European Union are on the visit.

The latest visit of foreign envoys comes in the backdrop of District Development Council polls, which saw huge participation and restoration of 4G mobile internet in the entire region after 18 months, which many see as a return of full normalcy in the Union Territory.

On the second day, the ambassadors will visit Jammu where they would be meeting Lt Gov Manoj Sinha besides some of the DDC members and representatives of some social organisations.

This will be the first visit by foreign diplomats to Jammu and Kashmir since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Two batches of foreign diplomats had earlier visited J-K in January and February last year after the abrogation of Article 370 in August 2019.

Sources told news agency ANI that some elements, who are working against Jammu and Kashmir's progress and restoration of normalcy, have been giving calls of a shutdown during the visit of envoys.

In January last year, envoys of 15 countries including the then US Ambassador to India Kenneth Juster and diplomats from Vietnam, South Korea, Brazil, Niger, Nigeria, Morocco, Guyana, Argentina, Philippines, Norway, Maldives, Fiji, Togo, Bangladesh and Peru visited Jammu and Kashmir to see first-hand the efforts being made by the government in the region.

In February last year, 25 foreign diplomats, including those from Germany, Canada, France and Afghanistan, visited Jammu and Kashmir to witness the ground situation in the region.

With agency inputs

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Published: 17 Feb 2021, 11:58 AM IST
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