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.

Let us together commence a journey of peace, harmony and progress in South Asia.

The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor.

Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.

Freedom is incomplete without social justice.

In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere.

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