New Delhi: Is it an average Indian or Indian leadership, “we aspire to greater things,” said Minister of Foreign Affairs S Jaishankar, overcoming India @ 75: Freedom summit held on Sundays.
“The emergence of strength began at home and a lot of progress in the past seven years was very visible at home,” Jaishankar said, reformed growth and reform in many sectors including “expanding manufacturing, turning our human resources, improving education and skills, making it easier to Doing business, creating a system where we keep our people, health, housing, strength and water as a basic need that needs to be provided so that our quality of life and quality are much better resources.
“That is the state like China growing and developing.
Quad, he said, has become an important grouping in the 21st century which is more multipolar.
But while Indian interests meet US ‘in the east, there are differences in the West, especially Afghanistan, the Minister said.
Jaisankar, however devoted a lot of attention to Indian relations in the neighborhood that has arrived under the recent API.
“Before the Prime Minister Modi went to Nepal, the country did not get bilateral visits from our side for 17 years.
Sri Lanka did not get one for 35 years.
The last Indian Prime Minister before Narendra Modi who went to UAE was Indira Gandhi.
If you do not give Attention to your environment, and your expanded environment, you will not be seen as a serious player.
“The difference shows, he said.
“Today, Nepal imports electricity from India, there is a fuel pipe that takes petroleum and diesel.
Bangladesh buys electricity from India and many of our pre-1965 links are restored.
If you see Maldives, we are very part of their development plan.
With Sri Lanka, many reconstruction after conflict has our involvement.
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India has a difference with us in Afghanistan: Eam Sjaisishankar
