MP Ahmed Azaan moved motion for inquiry into agreements signed with New Delhi between 2018 and 2023 under previous president Ibrahim Solih’s government.
India was so confident about Ibrahim Solih and to decapitate Abdulla Yameen’s pro-China agenda that it forgot to take the others along in the Maldives.
Mohamed Muizzu, from People’s National Congress-Progressive Party of Maldives coalition, won around 54% votes in presidential polls against 46% for 'India-friendly' incumbent Ibrahim Solih.
Ambassador Yon presented credentials to Maldivian President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih Wednesday. Move comes few months after Maldives reopened its embassy in Washington DC.
Why should the US care? Because in the end, as its wrangle with Britain this week should have reminded them, America still needs bases, friendly ports, & overfly rights.
Multiple companies have invoked the principle of ‘force majeure’, which lets a party off the hook in case of unforeseen ‘acts of God’, to avoid penalties.
IRIS Lavan was in the region for the International Fleet Review held last month and ‘sought urgent docking in Kochi citing technical issues,’ it is learnt.
Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.
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