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CLAT 2021 21 Year Experienced Team

India's efforts to gain ground in Sri Lanka:

India, being Sri Lanka's geographically-closest neighbour, needs to maintain a robust posture in regard to its
economic aid to Sri Lanka.

f Countries like the United States, Australia and Japan expect India to gain and maintain substantial
influence in the region as that would support their Indo-Pacific strategies.
f In November 2019, India offered a line of credit of US$400 million ($556.5 million) for development
projects and another US$50 million ($69.5 million) to help Colombo's counterterrorism effort.
f Currency exchange: The COVID-19 pandemic has forced President Rajapaksa to seek a US$1.1 billion
($1.5 billion) currency exchange facility from India and also to request a debt-repayment pause, which is
under consideration.
f New Delhi may draw some comfort from Colombo's current favourable foreign policy and attitude
towards its neighbours, but must remain conscious that does not mitigate the potential threat posed by
the Chinese presence in the IOR.

Asean Defence Ministers' Meeting Plus

About:
f Tenth anniversary: The meeting was organized online at Hanoi, Vietnam on the 10th anniversary of
ASEAN Defence Ministers' Meeting (ADMM) Plus.
f ADMM Plus is an annual meeting of Defence Ministers of 10 ASEAN Countries and eight partner countries.
The eight members apart from ASEAN countries are Australia, China, India, Japan, New Zealand, South
Korea, Russian Federation and the United States.
f Emphasis was given on Indo-Pacific region in particular as it confronts numerous traditional and non-
traditional security threats.
f India reiterated support to freedom of navigation and overflight for all in International waters in
accordance with the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

f Fight Terrorism: A stronger commitment and need to strengthen International mechanism to fight
terrorism, jointly and vigorously was called upon.

CAATSA

About:
f Sanction of Turkey: The United States has imposed sanctions on Turkey over its acquisition of Russian
S-400 air defence systems. US have long been threatening sanctions on Turkey and had removed the
country from an F-35 jet program.

f India's special case: India is set to get the consignment of the S-400 air defence system early next
year. While it has got a waiver from the outgoing Trump administration, it hopes that the incoming Biden
administration would not work towards reversing the decision.

CAATSA:
It stands for Countering America's Adversaries through Sanctions Act (CAATSA).
f It is a federal law and was enacted in August 2017 to counter the aggression by Iran, Russia and North

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