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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The foreign secretary informed the US ambassador that India's vote on any possible resolution on the Iranian issue at the IAEA would be determined by India's own judgment of the merits of the case.
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On Jammu and Kashmir, the two sides agreed to continue to address the issue in a sincere and purposeful manner,
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Since the imposition of sanctions in September 2004, the government maintained that this had no justification. Accordingly, we had urged the U.S. government to review the issue and withdraw the sanctions.
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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 issues covered during the meetings were bilateral, security perspectives (regional and global) and developments in South Asia, West Asia and North Africa, and the Gulf.
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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.