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Maldives groups should not misuse GMR issue: Khurshid
Monday December 10, 2012 12:52:59 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The
scrapping of the GMR airport deal by the Maldives government was a
legal issue, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said Monday
and hoped that the controversy would not be "allowed to be used"
by fringe groups in that country to lead to deterioration in ties.
The Maldives government's scrapping a $500 million deal with
Indian construction major GMR is "is an issue essentially legal in
nature", Khurshid told reporters.
He also expressed hope "that this will not be used or allowed to
be used by some fringe political groups that would lead to
deterioration of relations between two, which we value immensely
on both sides".
"And I am glad that matters seem to be proceeding along those
lines.. and there will not be any misuse" of the controversy, he
added.
Sources had said earlier that India is distressed at the way a
commercial dispute was being used by some fringe elements and
political parties in the Maldives to whip up anti-India
sentiments.
The government of Maldives President Mohamed Waheed on Nov 27
terminated the contract with GMR, the single largest Indian FDI in
the Maldives, awarded to the consortium for developing the Ibrahim
Nasir International Airport at Male.
GMIAL, which is a consortium of GMR and Malaysian airports
operator MAHB, had won the right to operate and modernise the Male
Airport in bidding conducted by IFC, an arm of the World Bank.
Khurshid, in his telephone talk last week with his Maldivian
counterpart Abdul Samad Abdullah, had said that "legal processes
involved in the GMR case should be permitted to take their own
course based on the contractual obligations of the parties
involved".
He had also made it clear to the minister that no arbitrary or
coercive measure should be taken in the GMR case pending the
outcome of the legal proceedings.
On Saturday, the Maldives government took over control of the Male
international airport from GMR.
Last Thursday, a Singapore court of appeal had ruled that Maldives
had the right to take back its airport. The deal had been signed
in 2010 by ousted president Mohamed Nasheed.
Elections are scheduled to be held in the Maldives late next year,
but there are indications that they could be held early next year.
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