NEW DELHI, Jan 2 - The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) today said India has briefed countries across the globe about the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the National Register of Citizens.
Talking to newsmen here, MEA spokesman Raveesh Kumar said they have reached out to countries across the globe on India�s perspective on the CAA and NRC.
The MEA, however, denied media reports that India�s action has come after several diplomats expressed their concern over the two issues following widespread agitation throughout the country.
Kumar said India has alerted all its Ambassadors and High Commissioners across the globe and asked them to focus on two-three points. He said the engagement may differ as the issue was complex and therefore it was decided to ask some of the Ambassadors ad High Commissioners to brief some countries, while the rest were briefed in India.
The first issue that India conveyed was that it was an internal affair of the country as the CAA envisaged expeditious grant of citizenship to religiously persecuted minorities who are already in India.
�We also conveyed that it does not affect the existing facilities available to citizens of other countries. It does seek to strip citizenship and it does not change the basic character of the Constitution of India,� the spokesman said.
Meanwhile, a day after the Kerala Assembly passed a resolution seeking withdrawal of the CAA, Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said there is no escape from the implementation of the law, emphasising that such a procedure is against the Constitution.