India's External Minister to Marcos: ‘We can be on your ship’

Jaishankar delivers a speech during his visit to the India Coast Guard Ship Samudra Paheredar docked at a port in Manila on March 26, 2024. - AFP

MANILA: The government of India has reiterated its support for the Philippines in the latter’s assertion of territorial rights in the West Philippine Sea, as well its recognition of the 2016 arbitral ruling that rejected Beijing’s claim over practically the entire South China Sea, a visiting official said on Tuesday (March 26).

In his courtesy visit to Malacanang, Indian Minister of External Affairs S. Jaishankar assured President Ferdinand Marcos Jr that New Delhi was “very resolute” in its position to uphold the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (Unclos), the basis of the Manila’s arbitration case.