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NEW DELHI. — Indian prime minister-elect Narendra Modi has invited Pakistan’s premier Nawaz Sharif as well as other South Asian leaders to his swearing-in ceremony next Monday, a spokeswoman for his party said.
Nirmala Sitharaman, from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), said all heads of government from the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation “have been given invitations to be present at Mr Modi’s swearing in.”
Modi is to take the oath as prime minister on May 26, ten days after a landslide win for the BJP which secured the first majority by a single party in 30 years. A senior official from India’s foreign ministry confirmed that it was examining a proposal to welcome foreign heads of governments, but said that invites had not yet been sent.
“We have not sent any invite yet. There is a proposal but we can’t share the details yet,” the official said. — AFP.
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