Ø Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas
in New York before leaving for India on Tuesday. External Affairs Ministry
spokesperson Vikas Swarup said the leaders discussed the issue of Indians being
held hostage in Iraq. The meeting has raised the hopes of family members of the
39 Indians kidnapped by the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq. The government had kept
the family members informed of the Modi-Abbas meeting as External Affairs
Minister Sushma Swaraj herself briefed a delegation of the relatives on
September 18 before the Prime Minister left for New York. Ms. Swaraj had
told the families that the Palestinian Authority provided her irrefutable proof
that the hostages had not been physically harmed by the IS.
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