India's effort has been to persuade the king that the restoration of democracy is absolutely essential to deal with the crisis that has arisen.
India has remained a full, functioning democracy.
Democracy is good for everybody.
Democracy is good for world peace.
Democracies don't go to war.
India is a functioning democracy - despite its extreme poverty, India has stayed the course.
Working together in helping nascent democracies in the task of reconstruction, in the task of development is another area where India and the USA can work together.
India's future lies in being an open society, an open polity, a functioning democracy respecting all fundamental human freedoms, accepting the rule of law and, at the same time, to emerge as a successful, internationally competitive market economy.
As the largest and most developed democracies of Asia (India and Japan), we have a mutual stake in each other's progress and prosperity.
Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.
Unfortunately, the United Nations suffers from a democracy deficit, ... Until the U.N. becomes more representative of the contemporary world and more relevant to our concerns and aspirations, its ability to deliver on ... its own charter obligations will remain limited.