India-Maldives Relations: The Foreign Ministry of Maldives has claimed that India will withdraw its troops from the island nation by May this year. The ministry said on Saturday (February 3) that India will withdraw its troops from Maldives. Officials said about 80 soldiers deployed in the Indian Ocean archipelago will be replaced by Indian civilians. Maldives, citing the consensus reached at a high-level meeting in Delhi on several issues related to bilateral cooperation, said that the first group of Indian soldiers will leave the country by March 10 and the…
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