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| PM to project new contemporary vision at NAM summit | | | New Delhi, Sep 8 With questions on NAM's relevance being tossed around, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will project a new contemporary vision to deal with major challenges like terrorism, nuclear disarmament and UN reforms at the Summit of the 116-nation grouping in Havana next week aimed at revitalising it.
Singh, who leaves on Sunday for a two-nation nine-day trip, will be the first Indian Prime Minister in 38 years to travel to Brazil for bilateral exchanges to be followed by a maiden Summit of the India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) forum.
Briefing reporters on the visit, Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran said the NAM Summit on September 15-16 will attempt to reinvent the grouping to find solutions to contemporary problems.
The NAM Summit, whose theme will be 'Purposes and principles of the role of NAM in present international juncture, will deliberate on a number of global issues besides regional ones like Palestine, Lebanon and Afghanistan.
To a question whether India would act as a moderator to tone down any anti-US rhetoric at the NAM, he said "it is not a matter of just one country but a collective statement. If NAM has had any impact on the international public opinion, it is not by making condemnatory statements but by identifying problems and finding solutions." He said "the message of the NAM should be constructive, one that seeks to unite and not divide." |
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