The second batch of 25 foreign envoys from the European Union(EU) and Gulf countries will visit Jammu today after wrapping up their day-long visit to the Kashmir valley.

Foreign envoys visited the Kashmir valley to get first-hand information about the ground situation there.

“The envoys will be reaching here on Thursday morning and will be meeting the Chief Justice of J&K High Court, Justice Gita Mittal, Lieutenant Governor Girish Chandra Murmu,” official sources here said.

They further said that the foreign envoys in the afternoon will meet around 20 delegations from trader, political, non-political, social, civil society and religious organizations. The batch includes envoys from Germany, Canada, France, New Zealand, Mexico, Italy, Afghanistan, Austria, Uzbekistan, Poland, as well as envoys of the European Union.

Earlier on January 9-10, a team of 15 envoys, including US Ambassador to India Kenneth Juster, paid a two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir.


The Central Government abrogated Article 370 and bifurcated the erstwhile state Jammu and Kashmir into Union Territories, Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh on August 5, 2019.