In a moving ceremony, India's External Affairs minister Dr S Jaishankar on Friday handed over holy relic of St Queen Ketevan to the Government of Georgia. Jaishankar reached Georgia on Friday from Moscow, in the first-ever visit by Indian External Affairs Minister since the country's independence in 1991. St. Queen Ketevan was 17th century Georgian Queen who was martyred in Iran's Shiraz. In 1978, the then EAM of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee visited Georgia. After that, Georgian Foreign Minister Irakli Menagarishvili and External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh had met in New Delhi on 11 May 2000.

Source: dna July 10, 2021 01:07 UTC