Foreign Envoys  

The second batch of foreign envoys, who are on a two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir to assess the ground situation in the Union Territory, took a tour of the famous Dal Lake upon reaching Srinagar on Wednesday (February 12) morning. The group is visiting Baramulla, Srinagar, and Jammu where they will meet the representatives of the civil society including youths from different ethnic, religious and socio-economic communities, local business and political leaders, civil administration and representatives of mainstream media.

On February 9 and 10, the first batch of delegates of foreign envoy were on a trip to the valley where they said they could witness normalcy returning in Jammu and Kashmir

 

Hello and welcome to this episode of The Handshake, my name is Amal Chowdhury and today we will be talking about another batch of foreign delegates visiting Jammu and Kashmir. The second batch of foreign envoys will visit Jammu and Kashmir today. The visit comes a month after a delegation of ambassadors visited the Union Territory last month. The diplomats belonging to the European Union including Germany, France, Czech Republic, Poland, Bulgaria and Hungary will be in Srinagar for a day on Wednesday and in Jammu on Thursday.

The lawyer representing the convicts in the 2012 Delhi gang-rape case on Wednesday said that he was not employing any tactics to delay the hanging of the four convicts but he was trying to stop the "miscarriage of justice". Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari met newly-elected MLAs at the party office on Wednesday. All this and more on today's MyNation in 100 seconds.

25 foreign envoys, including those from France, Germany, Canada and Afghanistan will visit Jammu and Kashmir on February 12
 

16 foreign envoys and senior diplomats travelled to Srinagar on January 9 to assess the situation in Jammu and Kashmir. The group was taken around Srinagar and met panchayat members and representatives of local bodies and NGOs. The group was accompanied by senior officials of the External Affairs Ministry.

The countries that were part of the group were the US, Vietnam, South Korea, Brazil, Uzbekistan, Niger, Nigeria, Morroco, Guyana, Argentina, the Philippines, Norway, the Maldives, Fiji, Togo, Bangladesh and Peru. Here are the key highlights of the meeting.