Global Travel To Be Based On Covid Testing, Not Discrimination On Vaccine: S Jaishankar

Foreign Minister S Jaishankar said that the COVID-10 challenge has actually provided an occasion for India and Russia to demonstrate the strength of their cooperation.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday said that people who are tested before and after international travel is a good enough basis but some countries have now introduced the issue of vaccination, stressing on the need to reach some understanding. Mr Jaishankar, addressing a joint press interaction following a meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, said that he believes that the basis for travel should be testing. "If people who are tested before for international travel and tested on arrival is a good enough basis for travel but some countries have now introduced the issue of vaccination. "So, we will have to reach obviously some understanding... I discussed today how do we make sure that we are not discriminated against and how do we reach understandings between ourselves about the travel of our citizens to each other's countries," Mr Jaishankar said.