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Jaishankar briefs U.S. Senate panel on CAA
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- External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar had shared India’s perspective on Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), 2019, with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the side-lines of Wednesday’s India-U.S. “2+2” ministerial meeting in the United States.
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- Recent developments
(1) India has been maintaining that the developments regarding the new citizenship code is an internal matter.
(2) This did not prevent important legislative outfits in the U.S. from commenting on the new law with the USCIRF calling for sanctions on Home Minister Amit Shah.
(3) Joint statement:
(a) In a joint statement issued on Thursday, both India and the U.S. agreed to uphold the “international rules-based order.”
(2) The statement called upon Pakistan to deny resources to cross-border terror groups.
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The Hindu