You can change friends but not neighbours.

We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.

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.

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

The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be.

Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.

We believe that the United States and the rest of the international community can play a useful role by exerting influence on Pakistan to put a permanent and visible end to cross-border terrorism against India.