London: India is looking to a top panel set
up by Australia to address the concerns of Indian students,
who have been targets of spate of attacks there, the External
Affairs Minister S M Krishna has said.
"The high-level Group must have been now formed and I
will have to get updated from our High Commission as to what
happened at the first meeting of the Group which is supposed
to address the concern of Indian students in Australia,"
Krishna said to a news agency here.
He said: "We will have to give it a try, how that works."
The Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith had assured
Krishna here on Wednesday that a high-level working group
would be set up by the federal government and the government
of Victoria state to study the spate of attacks on Indians in
that country.
Over 100 Indians, mostly students have been attacked in
Australia since last year, and one of the attacks has been
fatal.
Asked to comment on the outcome of the one-day London
conference on Afghanistan, Krishna said "the conference,
attended by over 60 Foreign Ministers, has served a very
useful purpose for international community to understand
various aspects involved with reference to Afghanistan".
"I think, preparatory to this conference, all countries
who were invited, have tried to formulate their own positions
vis-a-vis the emerging trends in Afghanistan," he said.
PTI
