From Snehesh Alex Philp Male, Feb 11 (PTI) Making it clear that it will not intervene but "engage", India today asked ousted Maldivian President Mohammed Nasheed and his successor Mohamed Waheed Hassan to resolve the "complex" situation in the country peacefully and democratically. Concerned over the political crisis in this picturesque archipelago following 44-year-old Nasheed's resignation on Tuesday, India, which dispatched a special envoy to the country yesterday, said it was for Maldivians to take charge of the situation. "The situation is of course complex. We would like to see it resolved in an atmosphere of calm and peace so that it does not affect the common man in Maldives," M Ganapathi, Secretary (West) in the External Affairs Ministry, told a press conference here before leaving for New Delhi. He stressed, "There is no countenancing of any intervention at all. It is engagement. It is for Maldivians to take charge." Ganapathi said the purpose of his visit was to meet the widest possible cross-section of stakeholders in Maldives. Referring to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's letter to Hassan, he said it was for "Maldivians themselves to resolve (their internal issues) peacefully and democratically within the framework of the Constitution of Maldives." Basides Nasheed and Hassan, Ganapathi met several political leaders here as well as the Chief Justice of Maldives' Supreme Court. He is also said to have met Mohamed Jameel, Maldives' new Home Minister. (More)
