Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries.

I have a vision of India-an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want.

We do not believe that a nuclear war should be fought, and we do not believe that a nuclear war can be won.

Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries.

The overwhelming public sentiment in India was that no meaningful dialogue can be held with Pakistan until it abandons the use of terrorism as an instrument of its foreign policy.

People who ask us when we will hold talks with Pakistan are perhaps not aware that over the last 55 years, every initiative for a dialogue with Pakistan has invariably come from India.

There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.