Ned Price stated, “India of course, is the world’s biggest democracy. It’s domestic to a awesome variety of faiths.”
While addressing reporters, US Department of State spokesperson Ned Price stated, “India of course, is the world’s biggest democracy. It’s domestic to a awesome variety of faiths. Our annual record on global non secular freedom outlines a number of the issues we have got taken observe of on the subject of India. And we hold to cautiously display the non secular freedom state of affairs in all nations and that consists of India.”
“We inspire and could hold to inspire the Indian authorities to maintain its dedication to defensive non secular freedom for all,” Price introduced.
“We have interaction officers frequently on steps they are able to take to boost non secular freedom. As the world’s biggest democracies, america and India, we are additionally devoted to a long lasting project,” he stated.
This announcement got here after the Biden management launched the call of nations which are distinct below the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in a announcement, stated, “Finally, I am designating al-Shabab, Boko Haram, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the Houthis, ISIS-Greater Sahara, ISIS-West Africa, Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam Wal-Muslimin, the Taliban, and the Wagner Group primarily based totally on its movements withinside the Central African Republic as Entities of Particular Concern.”
Blinken additionally stated that Cuba and Nicaragua have been introduced to the listing of nations of “Particular Concern”, and China, Russia, Iran, Burma, Eritrea, North Korea and Pakistan stay at the listing, in step with the announcement launched with the aid of using the United States Department of State.
“Today, I am pronouncing designations in opposition to Burma, the People’s Republic of China, Cuba, Eritrea, Iran, Nicaragua, the DPRK (North Korea), Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan as Countries of Particular Concern below the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 for having engaged in or tolerated especially excessive violations of non secular freedom,” Blinken stated in a announcement.
“I am additionally setting Algeria, the Central African Republic, Comoros, and Vietnam at the Special Watch List for accomplishing or tolerating excessive violations of non secular freedom. Finally, I am designating al-Shabab, Boko Haram, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the Houthis, ISIS-Greater Sahara, ISIS-West Africa, Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam Wal-Muslimin, the Taliban, and the Wagner Group primarily based totally on its movements withinside the Central African Republic as Entities of Particular Concern,” the announcement quoted Blinken as saying.
US assertion of those designations is in step with the values and pursuits to shield countrywide protection and to boost human rights across the globe. Countries that successfully guard this and different human rights are extra peaceful, stable, wealthy and extra dependable companions of america than those who do not.
