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Sushma Swaraj to take up Masood issue

External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj is expected to raise the issue of China blocking India’s bid to get the UN to ban JeM chief Masood Azhar with her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, whom she will be

External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj is expected to raise the issue of China blocking India’s bid to get the UN to ban JeM chief Masood Azhar with her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, whom she will be meeting on the sidelines of a trilateral in Moscow on April 18. A day after foreign secretary S. Jaishankar said the Chinese action at the UN was raised at “fairly high level”, MEA spokesperson Vikas Swarup on Thursday said India was in constant touch with China on the matter and further action will depend on the outcome of “conversations” between the two countries. Announcing Ms Swaraj’s visit to Moscow to attend Russia-India-China trilateral, he said during her stay, the minister will hold bilateral meetings with senior Russian ministers and Yi to take stock of the issues of mutual interest.

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