Shyam Saran India Quotations

There is a major realignment of forces in Asia. India and the US can contribute to a much better balance in the Asian region.

We will have the privilege of receiving the president of France in the early part of next year. India and France enjoy a strategic partnership. We have been cooperating with each other in the international fora on a range of issues.

India is poised today to enter a new phase in its foreign policy. We aspire to be a permanent member of the Security Council. We are demonstrating a growing capability to shoulder regional and global responsibilities.

India is a partner in global non-proliferation efforts rather than a target of these efforts,

India is against proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. We have said Iran, just as any other country, should live to its commitments and obligations (on nuclear activities),

India and the US are becoming partners in a global non-proliferation regime,

In considering its approach towards the resumption of full civil nuclear energy cooperation with India, the international community has to ask itself whether India is a partner or a target for the global non-proliferation regime,

He (the Pakistani envoy) added that any assistance from India in the form of such materials would be deeply appreciated,

The challenge for our diplomacy lies in convincing our neighbors that India is an opportunity and not a threat. Far from being besieged by India, they have a vast, productive hinterland that would give their economies far greater opportunities for growth than if they were to rely on their domestic markets alone.