With PM in Jordan and Jaishankar in Israel, India reiterates its position on West Asian conflicts

AMMAN : Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi in Amman calling for an India-Jordan collaboration for the reconstruction of war-ravaged Syria, and External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar in Tel Aviv expressing India’s support for the Trump peace plan for Gaza, India on Tuesday (December 16, 2025) reiterated its willingness to play an important role in the fast-evolving scenario in West Asia.

Speak­ing at the India­-Jordan Busi­ness Forum, Mr. Modi said King Abdul­lah II had shared his vis­ion of devel­op­ing rail­ways and “next ­gen­er­a­tion infra­struc­ture” in Jordan. “Dur­ing our meet­ing yes­ter­day, His Majesty also high­lighted the infra­struc­ture re-con­struc­tion needs in Syria. Indian and Jord­anian com­pan­ies can col­lab­or­ate to address these require­ments together,” he said.

Mr. Modi — who was in Jordan earlier, for his ongo­ing three ­nation tour cov­er­ing Jordan, Ethiopia and Oman — met with King Abdul­lah II and expressed mutual determ­in­a­tion to fight “ter­ror­ism, extrem­ism and rad­ic­al­isa­tion”. The two dig­nit­ar­ies also dis­cussed regional con­flicts. “Prime Min­is­ter reaf­firmed India’s sup­port for efforts being made to achieve dur­able peace in the region,” the External Affairs Min­istry said.

A day after Mr. Modi reached Jordan, Mr. Jaishankar landed in the Israeli cap­ital Tel Aviv where he was wel­comed by the For­eign Min­is­ter Gideon Saar. Mr. Jaishankar con­demned the ter­ror attack in Bondi beach of Sydney, Aus­tralia, and said, “Where India and Israel are con­cerned, we are both coun­tries who have a policy of zero tol­er­ance towards ter­ror­ism.”

“I also would like to listen to you about the regional situ­ation. I want to say that India sup­ports the Gaza peace plan ( given by Pres­id­ent Trump) and hopes that it will lead to a last­ing and dur­able solu­tion,” he said.

Mr. Jaishankar’s visit has attrac­ted atten­tion as in its back­drop, the Israeli Knes­set passed a law to stop the activ­it­ies of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees that India has his­tor­ic­ally assisted.