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These Four Ministers To Travel To Ukraine’s Neighbouring Countries To Coordinate Evacuation Of Indians
New Delhi, Feb 27: Minister of State for External Affairs and Parliamentary Affairs V Muraleedharan (L) with Union Minister for Civil Aviation, Jyotiraditya Scindia welcomes Indian students evacuated from Ukraine, upon their arrival at the IGI Airport, in New Delhi.
Stepping up its efforts to evacuate Indian students stranded in war-hit Ukraine, the Centre on Monday decided that Union ministersĀ Hardeep Puri,Ā Jyotiraditya Scindia,Ā Kiren RijijuĀ and V K Singh will travel to its neighbouring countries to coordinate theĀ evacuationĀ mission and help students, government sources said. These ministers will be going there as “special envoys” ofĀ India, they said.
The decision was taken at a high-level meeting chaired by Prime MinisterĀ Narendra Modi.
Several ministers, including External Affairs MinisterĀ S JaishankarĀ and Commerce MinisterĀ Piyush Goyal, also attended the meeting.
Modi had chaired a meeting on the Ukraine crisis on Sunday too and had asserted that ensuring the safety of Indian students and evacuating them is the government’s top priority.
It was also decided at the meeting to further enhance cooperation with the neighbouring countries of Ukraine to expedite the evacuation of Indian students, sources had said.
