Attacks on Indians in Australia not good for ties: Krishna

Continued attacks on Indians in Australia do not "augur well" for bilateral ties, External Affairs Minister SM Krishna said in New Delhi today. The minister was reacting to the latest attack on an Indian in Melbourne.

Continued attacks on Indians in Australia do not "augur well" for bilateral ties, External Affairs Minister S M Krishna said in New Delhi on Wednesday.

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The minister was reacting to the latest attack on an Indian in Melbourne which was the fifth such assault on Indian cabbies within a week.

Krishna said he was expecting a report from the Indian High Commissioner to Australia on the incident.

"I have just heard the news. I am expecting a report from our High Commissioner and after getting the report perhaps I must have something to say.

"But it is very unfortunate that they keep repeating, which does not augur well for our bilateral relationship," the minister said.

Krishna has already indicated a possibility of Government advising Indian students not to go to Australia if the attacks on them, which has claimed one life so far, continued.