Protecting data essential for ‘national security’, says Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale
His remarks come as Telecom operators in the country have submitted their applications for 5G trials.
His remarks come as Telecom operators in the country have submitted their applications for 5G trials.
The Indian delegation was led by Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale and Defence Secretary Ajay Kumar while the Australian side was headed by Foreign Secretary Frances Adamson and Defence Secretary Greg Moriarty.
''It's an unfortunate situation where a country denies overflight to the head of state/head of government of another country. But it's true when there's a normal country. Hope Pakistan will realise the folly of its actions,'' Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale told reporters in New Delhi.
Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale had briefed the envoys of the US, Britain, France, China and Russia - the five permanent members of the UNSC.
At the press briefing, Modi and Trump agreed that they would meet at an early date to try and sort out issues pertaining to trade between the two countries.
PM Abe referred specifically to PM Modi's initiative in earlier G20 meetings on the issue of fugitive economic offenders and said that G20 should deal with the problem as part of its anti-corruption measures.
Gokhale is on a two-day China visit to meet Wang, also China's Foreign Minister and is expected to convince Beijing not to block a resolution to declare Azhar an international terrorist at a UN panel.
Earlier this week, top diplomatic sources had said that China was set to lift its technical hold on the listing of JeM chief Masood Azhar as a global terrorist by the 1267 sanctions committee of the UN Security Council in early May.
The two sides exchanged views on a wide range of global security and non-proliferation challenges during the ninth round of the India-US Strategic Security Dialogue held in Washington
India and US also reaffirmed their commitment to work together to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
