From Twitter interactions to India's NSG membership: Watch Sushma Swaraj answer all the questions

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday insisted that China is not blocking India’s entry to the Nuclear Supplier’s Group (NSG) but is talking about the criteria and procedures. She also spoke on a host of topics including Vijay Mallya, Lalit Modi, ISIS, Donald Trump, FDI under NDA.   The 39 Indians, kidnapped by the dreaded ISIS in Iraq in June 2014, are still alive, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said, dismissing reports about their killing and insisting that efforts to trace them are on.

In her annual press conference, Swaraj said the government was trying its best to ensure safe release of Judith D'Souza, an aid worker and resident of Kolkata, who was abducted by suspected militants in Kabul on June 9.

India has received USD 55 billion in FDI in the last two years, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said , noting enhanced economic engagement with countries across the world has been a major priority area of the government's foreign policy. The External Affairs Minister said government had touched base with 140 countries in the past year and listed India's growing ties with nations in the African continent, countries of the Gulf region and Pacific islands as major achievements. India will reach out to 65 countries to which it will send its ministers. There have not been any ministerial visits to these countries, Swaraj said.

Swaraj said she and Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited six SAARC countries, with the government strongly pursuing its "neighbourhood first" policy. She said because of the sustained efforts, India has received USD 55 billion (Rs 3.69 lakh crore) in foreign direct investment in the last two years.

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With agency inputs