The inaugural of “The Commission for Dialogue” with the United Kingdom on the Falkland Islands has run into rough weather as members of the commission from the BJP declined to attend the event after the party expressed uneasiness over the launch just two days after hosting U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Launching the Commission here on Sunday, Foreign Minister of Argentina Santiago Cafiero acknowledged India’s traditional support for resolving the “territorial dispute” and said, “Argentina and India share same anti–colonial heritage and values”.
Mr. Cafiero declared launch of the Commission in the presence of a large number of envoys based here. However, former Union Minister and BJP leader Suresh Prabhu, who was scheduled to appear at the event, stayed away. “I am currently travelling to the United States to visit several universities and speaking there. I am not thus obviously part of this event as reported,” he said in a social media message in response to The Hindu’s story of Sunday.
