External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday, January 18, held a “frank conversation” with his Maldivian counterpart Moosa Zameer in Kampala, days after Maldives’ President Mohamed Muizzu asked India to withdraw all the Indian military personnel from the island nation by March 15. Zameer said the ongoing “high-level discussions” on the withdrawal of Indian military personnel figured in his talks with Jaishankar, adding Male is committed to further strengthening and expanding bilateral cooperation. The meeting between the two ministers took place on the sidelines of a ministerial meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in the Ugandan capital.