Navtej Sarna
Navtej Sarna
Navtej Sarnais an Indian author-columnist, diplomat, and former Indian Ambassador to Israel. He is currently the Indian High Commissioner to the UK...
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India is willing to facilitate such movements but we await word from Pakistan about the practical details of implementing this intention.
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The two sides had detailed and productive discussions. There was greater clarity on the issues under discussion. Progress has been made.
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The offer by the Saudi king has been received by the Ministry of External Affairs. It will be examined in detail in consultation with the concerned authorities.
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Credible minimum deterrent is a self-explanatory term that requires no further elucidation.
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All I can say at the moment is that he has proceeded on leave and we will wait for the investigations to take their course.
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A counter reaction? No. I think I made the point that I had to.
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They should be finishing soon. They started at 12:00.
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This consists of 68 tons of relief materials, which is made up of 5,000 blankets, 320 tents and 4.5 tons of plastic sheets.
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The Indian side sees the visit as the culmination of that process. From now on, we want to make sure there is sustained and continuous engagement with Bangladesh.
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It appears to us that the proposals made by Pakistan can be reconciled with those that we ourselves had already made.
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The Maoist movement must abandon the use of violence as a political instrument and commit itself to the principles of democracy thereby creating conditions for joining the political mainstream.
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The sanctions imposed by the US government on the two Indian firms relate to transfer of some chemicals to Iran. Our preliminary assessment is that the transfer of such chemicals is not in violation of our regulations or our international obligations.
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In preliminary discussions on these elements, India has already conveyed to US that such a provision has no place in the proposed bilateral agreement and that India is bound only by what is contained in the July 18 Joint Statement, that is, continuing its commitment to a unilateral moratorium on nuclear testing.
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India has always supported the peace process and they will support the peace process.