No state should be allowed to profess partnership with the global coalition against terror, while continuing to aid, abet and sponsor terrorism.

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.

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

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.

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.