Our strategic interests lie with India: Maldives foreign minister (Interview)

Nothing that can change this plain fact, says the new foreign minister of the Indian Ocean country that installed a democratic regime last week after three decades of one-man rule.”Our primary strategic interests lie with India. And there is nothing that can change this plain fact,” Maldives Foreign Minister Ahmed Shaheed told IANS in an interview in this capital city days after the 41-year-old Mohamed “Anni” Nasheed was sworn in as the first democratically elected president of the country.

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