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Manama [Bahrain], December 8 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday, reflected on the importance of the Gulf region for India as well as for the wider world, and also affirmed hope that the 'I2U2' grouping will grow in the coming days. He further said that India is a supporter of the Abraham Accords -- the agreements on Arab Israeli normalization signed in 2020. Also Read | What is US Birthright Citizenship? All You Need to Know As Donald Trump Reaffirms Hardline Immigration Stance, Vows to Curtail Citizenship by Birth. Jaishankar was speaking at the 20th IISS Manama Dialogue panel on 'Whither Regional Strategic Cooperation' on Sunday, alongside Bahrainian Foreign Minister, Dr Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani and Czech Republic National Security Advisor, Tomas Pojar. 'I2U2' is a strategic partnership group between four nations -- India, Israel, the US and the UAE. It was conceptualized during the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the four countries in 2021. Also Read | Syria Crisis: Syrians Celebrate Bashar Assad’s Fall as His Whereabouts Remain Unknown. The grouping is aimed to encourage joint investments in six mutually identified areas such as water, energy, transportation, space, health, and food security. It intends to mobilize private sector capital and expertise to help modernize the infrastructure, low carbon development pathways for our industries, improve public health, and promote the development of critical emerging and green technologies, according to the Ministry of External Affairs. "For us, when we speak about the region, there is the importance of the region itself, the society, the culture, the history, the civilization, the people. The 60 million who live in the Gulf, the 500 million who live in the MENA region beyond. And most of all, I think this region has had in history a great ideational impact on the wider world. And I think even today, a lot of what happens here and around here, I think resonates around the world," he said. "There is a second aspect, which is, in a sense, the economic one, the resources, especially, but not only energy, including, I should say when we look a little bit beyond the horizon, non-fossil energy as well. I mean, this is going to be a crucial region(for green hydrogen, for green ammonia. It's going to be part of green corridors," he added. External Affairs Minister called the Gulf region crucial as it has always been a bridge between Europe and Asia. He further spoke about the region's importance in today's scenario. "This region is crucial because, again, historically, it has always been a bridge between Europe and Asia. And I think the connectivity that this implies today has, new relevance and new importance. So, when we speak about regional strategic cooperation, I think our mind should go to those within the region, those around the region, and those beyond the region...is there a basis for forging a common interest here? Now, where India is concerned...we have a long history. I don't want to dilate on that. But let me give you...a contemporary sense of the importance of this region for us," Jaishankar said. The Foreign Minister pointed out the high trade with the region, as well as the huge number of Indian diaspora living in the Gulf countries. "It is a region, and here I'm now talking of the GCC nations only. I mean, if I add Iran and Iraq, the numbers would be higher. It is a region where we do about 170 to 180 billion dollars worth of trade every year, where there is an Indian diaspora today of about 10 million people and growing, which is, for us, not just a key energy partner, but a broader economic partner, a very crucial source of investment, and increasingly an important technology collaborator," Jaishankar said. He added, "And it is, very, very important for energy, but also for fertilizers. We are the second biggest fertilizer importer in the world, very crucial for our agriculture. So I cannot overstate the importance of this region, of the Gulf, of the GCC in particular, to India, But let's go a little bit broader beyond that, to MENA, in fact, I would say to the Mediterranean, because that's, in a sense, the next region beyond us." The EAM noted that almost half a million Indians live in the Mediterranean Sea, adding that the Indian companies are operating ports in the Mediterranean and are building ports. "In the Mediterranean today, again, we have, with the countries of the Mediterranean, an annual trade of about 80-90 billion dollars. We have, by the way, almost half a million Indians who live in the Mediterranean countries, half a million citizens. And today, when we look at the Mediterranean, we have Indian companies who operate a port, who are building an airport, who, again, who have military production centers there, big trade partners. When we look, again, ahead at the green hydrogen economy, many of the crucial partnerships that we see are in the Mediterranean. So, you know, what I am trying to explain to you are the stakes that we have in the region," he said. He further stressed how India and the Gulf region cooperate in a political and diplomatic way. Speaking on how India and the region can cooperate strategically, Jaishankar said, "I think, first of all, obviously, you cooperate in a political, diplomatic way. And what we do in my business is essentially try to address the challenges of the day as collectively and as effectively as possible. And this today would extend from Gaza to Lebanon, now to Syria as well.But at the same time, we have to be realistic about competing interests in this region. So, diplomacy is often easier said than done. And one of the interesting evolution of the world today is s actually on different issues, sometimes even in the same region, you have a different combination of countries that are working together. And that, to me, is actually the characteristic of our era." Jaishankar also called the absence of ties between Israel and Iran a "particular source of concern," while adding that some of India's diplomatic efforts have focused on that particular aspect. "The second political, diplomatic cooperation that we can think of is really at a time when, you know, the world is polarized, if not downright violent, how do you prevent an escalation of tensions? How do you prevent conflict from spreading further? And in recent times, I think for all of us, the relationship, the absence of it between Israel and Iran has been a particular source of concern. So some of our diplomatic efforts has focused on that particular aspect," he said. "There has been the situation in the Red Sea. You know, on a more positive note, the third aspect of political-diplomatic, I would say we're also looking at certain trend lines coming out of this region. We have been a supporter of the Abraham Accords. And some years ago, we started a grouping called I2U2, which involves India, Israel, the United States, and the UAE. It is still at a relatively early stage, and we certainly hope in the coming days it's a group that will grow," he added. 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It looked like a recipe for disaster. So, when his country's swimmers were being accused of doping earlier this year, one Chinese official cooked up something fast. He blamed it on contaminated noodles. In fact, he argued, it could have been a culinary conspiracy concocted by criminals, whose actions led to the cooking wine used to prepare the noodles being laced with a banned heart drug that found its way into an athlete's system. This theory was spelled out to international anti-doping officials during a meeting and, after weeks of wrangling, finally made it into the thousands of pages of data handed over to the lawyer who investigated the case involving 23 Chinese swimmers who had tested positive for that same drug. The attorney, appointed by the World Anti-Doping Agency, refused to consider that scenario as he sifted through the evidence. In spelling out his reasoning, lawyer Eric Cottier paid heed to the half-baked nature of the theory. “The Investigator considers this scenario, which he has described in the conditional tense, to be possible, no less, no more,” Cottier wrote. Even without the contaminated-noodles theory, Cottier found problems with the way WADA and the Chinese handled the case but ultimately determined WADA had acted reasonably in not appealing China's conclusion that its athletes had been inadvertently contaminated. Critics of the way the China case was handled can't help but wonder if a wider exploration of the noodle theory, details of which were discovered by The Associated Press via notes and emails from after the meeting where it was delivered, might have lent a different flavor to Cottier's conclusions. “There are more story twists to the ways the Chinese explain the TMZ case than a James Bond movie,” said Rob Koehler, the director general of the advocacy group Global Athlete. "And all of it is complete fiction.” In April, reporting from the New York Times and the German broadcaster ARD revealed that the 23 Chinese swimmers had tested positive for the banned heart medication trimetazidine, also known as TMZ. China's anti-doping agency determined the athletes had been contaminated, and so, did not sanction them. WADA accepted that explanation , did not press the case further, and China was never made to deliver a public notice about the “no-fault findings,” as is often seen in similar cases. The stock explanation for the contamination was that traces of TMZ were found in the kitchen of a hotel where the swimmers were staying. In his 58-page report , Cottier relayed some suspicions about the feasibility of that chain of events — noting that WADA's chief scientist “saw no other solution than to accept it, even if he continued to have doubts about the reality of contamination as described by the Chinese authorities.” But without evidence to support pursuing the case, and with the chance of winning an appeal at almost nil, Cottier determined WADA's “decision not to appeal appears indisputably reasonable.” A mystery remained: How did those traces of TMZ get into the kitchen? Shortly after the doping positives were revealed, the Institute of National Anti-Doping Organizations held a meeting on April 30 where it heard from the leader of China's agency, Li Zhiquan. Li's presentation was mostly filled with the same talking points that have been delivered throughout the saga — that the positive tests resulted from contamination from the kitchen. But he expanded on one way the kitchen might have become contaminated, harkening to another case in China involving a low-level TMZ positive. A pharmaceutical factory, he explained, had used industrial alcohol in the distillation process for producing TMZ. The industrial alcohol laced with the drug “then entered the market through illegal channels,” he said. The alcohol "was re-used by the perpetrators to process and produce cooking wine, which is an important seasoning used locally to make beef noodles,” Li said. “The contaminated beef noodles were consumed by that athlete, resulting in an extremely low concentration of TMZ in the positive sample. "The wrongdoers involved have been brought to justice.” This new information raised eyebrows among the anti-doping leaders listening to Li's report. So much so that over the next month, several emails ensued to make sure the details about the noodles and wine made their way to WADA lawyers, who could then pass it onto Cottier. Eventually, Li did pass on the information to WADA general counsel Ross Wenzel and, just to be sure, one of the anti-doping leaders forwarded it, as well, according to the emails seen by the AP. All this came with Li's request that the noodles story be kept confidential. Turns out, it made it into Cottier's report, though he took the information with a grain of salt. “Indeed, giving it more attention would have required it to be documented, then scientifically verified and validated,” he wrote. Neither Wenzel nor officials at the Chinese anti-doping agency returned messages from AP asking about the noodles conspiracy and the other athlete who Li suggested had been contaminated by them. Meanwhile, 11 of the swimmers who originally tested positive competed at the Paris Games earlier this year in a meet held under the cloud of the Chinese doping case. Though WADA considers the case closed, Koehler and others point to situations like this as one of many reasons that an investigation by someone other than Cottier, who was hired by WADA, is still needed. “It gives the appearance that people are just making things up as they go along on this, and hoping the story just goes away," Koehler said. “Which clearly it has not.” AP Olympics: https://apnews.com/hub/2024-paris-olympic-games

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