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India & NAM

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Brasilia for the India-Brazil-South Africa summit and Havana for the Non-Aligned Movement summit will add a new dimension to India's foreign policy. Such summits are effective platforms for India to engage with nations with similar history, and economic and social challenges. Collectively, they can formulate ways to cooperate on issues of development and counter the adverse impact of globalisation.

It will be interesting to see how India defines its position in NAM, particularly vis-à-vis nations such as Cuba that are critical of the U.S. policy on Iran. India must convince the other member-states of its commitment to NAM and help in revitalising it.

Sutirtha Sahariah,
New Delhi

It takes little for the U.S. to ditch an ally. It is guided solely by the interests of its MNCs. No other consideration, ideological or humanitarian, has ever influenced Washington's foreign policy decisions. The Indian leadership should realise the importance of the emergence of a new world economic order initiated in Latin America. Being the largest democracy, it should grab the opportunity to lead the rejuvenated NAM movement. It is better to follow an independent foreign policy than the Blairist policy of kowtowing to the U.S.

Pasupati Nath Chatterjee,
Rourkela, Orissa

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