ISSUE
Friday, August 22, 2025
Volume 16 . Issue 73
Prime Minister John Key appeared undeterred by any suggestion that raging issue of Indian student deportation back home will affect New Zealand’s brand image in India as a favorable destination for international education.
Speaking at a media stand up in the Jakarta airport where the NZRAF plane has stopped for a scheduled refueling Key shrugged any suggestion about the Indian student deportation issue dominating his summit talks with the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Prime Minister pointed that the number of students facing deportation is less than hundred, and this is very insignificant numbers in comparison to 30,000 students studying in New Zealand.
He said that he was not expecting this issue to be of much significance in his bilateral talks with Prime Minister Modi.
Though he is prepared to present New Zealand’s viewpoint that the sanctity of New Zealand rules and system need to be obliged by students should the issue was raised at summit level talks with Prime Minister Modi.
In a clear reflection of Indian weekender’s accurate assessment expressed earlier after the forced cancellation of Mumbai leg of this five-day state visit to India, Prime Minister Key is focussing on “political dialogue” with Indian leadership.
“It is an opportunity to expand the political dialogue that we are having with each other,” said Prime Minister Key.
“It is about putting greater political momentum behind our mutual talks on free trade agreement,” he further asserted.
Indian weekender has earlier suggested that lost opportunity of trade consultation in Mumbai could be a gain for a comprehensive political dialogue.
The way NZ-India trade situation is placed suggest an intense political engagement before opportunities for trade could be opened.
Prime Minister John Key appeared undeterred by any suggestion that raging issue of Indian student deportation back home will affect New Zealand’s brand image in India as a favorable destination for international education.
Speaking at a media stand up in the Jakarta airport where the NZRAF plane...
Prime Minister John Key appeared undeterred by any suggestion that raging issue of Indian student deportation back home will affect New Zealand’s brand image in India as a favorable destination for international education.
Speaking at a media stand up in the Jakarta airport where the NZRAF plane has stopped for a scheduled refueling Key shrugged any suggestion about the Indian student deportation issue dominating his summit talks with the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Prime Minister pointed that the number of students facing deportation is less than hundred, and this is very insignificant numbers in comparison to 30,000 students studying in New Zealand.
He said that he was not expecting this issue to be of much significance in his bilateral talks with Prime Minister Modi.
Though he is prepared to present New Zealand’s viewpoint that the sanctity of New Zealand rules and system need to be obliged by students should the issue was raised at summit level talks with Prime Minister Modi.
In a clear reflection of Indian weekender’s accurate assessment expressed earlier after the forced cancellation of Mumbai leg of this five-day state visit to India, Prime Minister Key is focussing on “political dialogue” with Indian leadership.
“It is an opportunity to expand the political dialogue that we are having with each other,” said Prime Minister Key.
“It is about putting greater political momentum behind our mutual talks on free trade agreement,” he further asserted.
Indian weekender has earlier suggested that lost opportunity of trade consultation in Mumbai could be a gain for a comprehensive political dialogue.
The way NZ-India trade situation is placed suggest an intense political engagement before opportunities for trade could be opened.
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