NEW DELHI: To speed up international travel in the covid-19 pandemic affected world and restore livelihoods, India has worked out arrangements with over 100 countries to mutually recognise vaccine certifications, external affairs minister S Jaishankar has said.
Addressing the 5th Indian Ocean Conference in Abu Dhabi late Saturday, Jaishankar pointed out that covid-19 and the US withdrawal from Afghanistan had complicated the geopolitical flux caused by “a greater caution in the US power projection and an effort to correct its over-extension" and the rise of China. “What we have seen instead are specific countries stepping forward in different ways to mitigate the crisis, some individually, others in partnership," he said.