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| PM: Indo-US ties not at the cost of other nations | | | On Board PM's Special Flight, Sept 12 Rejecting suggestions that India was getting "isolated" in the Non Aligned Movement (NAM) because of its improving relations with the United States, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said today that Indo-US ties were not at the cost of other nations or their interests.
"There is no no question of India being isolated. Our stand is fully in conformity with what our founding fathers would have liked us to do. Non alignment is a state of mind and ability to exercise an independent judgement of all issues.
"I think in that sense non alignment continues to have its relevance. I don't buy this argument that most members of the NAM do not not want relations with the US. And we are not not seeking good relations with the US at the cost of other countries," Singh said.
He said India's desire to normalise and expand relations with the US in no no way contradicts or no no way runs counter to the interest of other countries." The Prime Minister was replying to a question from journalists accompanying him on his visit to Brazil and Cuba.
On foreign policy initiatives, he said as have-nots of the world, India has to toss all the balls. "I have said that foreign policy is essentially a device to widen our development options. The foremost problem before our countriy is to get rid of chronic poverty, ignorance and disease which still afflicts millions of people." |
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