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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Instrument
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- Nov 07, 2020
The overwhelming public sentiment in India was that no meaningful dialogue can be held with Pakistan until it abandons the use of terrorism as an instrument of its foreign policy.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can change friends but not neighbours.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Against
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.
- Nov 07, 2020
There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.
- Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be.
- Cold War
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere.
- Partnership
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- Nov 07, 2020
No state should be allowed to profess partnership with the global coalition against terror, while continuing to aid, abet and sponsor terrorism.
- Benefits
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.
- Disasters
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- Nov 07, 2020
Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
As we talk with candour, we open the doors to new possibilities and new areas of cooperation in advance in democracy, in combating terrorism, in energy and environment, science and technology and international peacekeeping.
- Good Wishes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Members of India's diaspora, living in distant lands of the world, my good wishes to all of you. You may be far away from India, but you are always close to our hearts.
- Helpless
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would like that no citizen of the state feels alone and helpless. The entire nation is with them.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
My government is committed to carrying out electoral reforms. It is our firm resolve to keep criminal elements away from power.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a vision of India: an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
I dream of an India that is prosperous, strong and caring. An India, that regains a place of honour in the comity of great nations.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
India was secular even when Muslims hadn't come here and Christians hadn't set foot on this soil. It is not as if India became secular after they came. They came with their own modes of worship, and they, too, were given a place of honor and respect. They had the freedom to worship God as per their wish and inclination.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ours is a multi-religious country, a multi-lingual country; we have many different modes of worship. We believe in peaceful and harmonious co-existence.
- Equal
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- Nov 07, 2020
We believe in equal respect for all faiths.
- India
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let no one challenge India's secularism.
- India
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to convert the extraordinary goodwill between India and Russia into a thriving, visible, vigorous, and mutually beneficial economic relationship.
- Economic Strength
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- Nov 07, 2020
Neither India nor Russia perceives a threat from the strength of the other. Each sees a benefit for itself in the increased political and economic strength of the other.
- Human Beings
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- Nov 07, 2020
The BJP regards Muslims as Indians and human beings.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
I prefer to die rather than eat beef.
- Nov 07, 2020
Himachal is my second home.
- Delhi
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though I stay in Delhi, I often think about Himachal.
- Disputes
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- Nov 07, 2020
We believe in resolving all disputes peacefully.
- Frequent
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our frequent initiatives to normalise relations with Pakistan are not a sign of our weakness; rather, they are an indication of our commitment to peace.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should always care for the minorities and be attentive towards their welfare.
- Kashmir
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- Nov 07, 2020
Free and fair elections have again demonstrated that Jammu and Kashmir is part of India, and the people want to remain with it.
- Contribute
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- Nov 07, 2020
Violence does not contribute to anything.
- Bilateral
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe India and Israel should focus on building bilateral relations on the basis of shared perspectives and commonalities between our two democracies. This has to be a forward-looking exercise rather than harking back to perceptions of the past.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our objective should be to firmly deal with terrorism and its sponsors, financiers, and arms suppliers. At the same time, our doors should always be open for processes which would restore peace, development, and progress to societies which have been devastated by terrorism over many generations.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Indonesia, Malaysia, wherever Muslims are living, they don't want to live in harmony.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our words, actions, and diplomatic efforts should be aimed at trying to achieve pragmatic goals rather than creating rhetorical effect.
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
Quiet diplomacy is far more effective than public posturing.
- Permanent
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- Nov 07, 2020
We want peace to be permanent.
- Essential
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- Nov 07, 2020
For development, peace is essential.
- India
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a matter of concern that science departments in India's vast university system have suffered greatly due to lack of investments, both material and in terms of faculty.
- Famine
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have ended hunger, but now we have to end famine.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
India helped Bangladesh to achieve independence. The Bangladeshis should remain happy inside the territory of their own country.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
We used to fight with Pakistan with bombs. Now we are fighting with them on the playing ground.
- Emerged
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- Nov 07, 2020
The regional parties have emerged as a strong force, and they, too, deserve a place in national politics.
- Nov 07, 2020
Labour reforms are not anti-worker.
- India
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our aim should be to make India a global R&D hub.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never been a traitor. I am not an informer; I never betrayed my nation.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
During the 1942 Quit India Movement, I was a student at Gwalior High School. I was arrested by the British for participating in the movement. My parents then sent me off to my village where, again, I jumped into the movement.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am often accused of colluding with the British during the freedom struggle. I want to ask, how?
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are unnecessarily wasting our precious resources in wars... if we must wage war, we have to do it on unemployment, disease, poverty, and backwardness.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Empowering the individual means empowering the nation. And empowerment is best served through rapid economic growth with rapid social change.
- Carnage
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- Nov 07, 2020
It requires an effort of logical acrobatics to believe that carnage of innocents is an instrument for freedom and elections are a symbol of deception and repression!
- Fraud
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the elections are a mere fraud, why are terrorists being trained and infiltrated into India at the command of the Inter-Services Intelligence Agency of Pakistan to kill election candidates and to intimidate voters?
- Pakistan
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Pakistan claims to be a crucial partner in the international coalition against terrorism, how can it continue to use terrorism as an instrument of state policy against India?
- Policies
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- Nov 07, 2020
The BJP decides its own policies.
- Patriotism
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is true that of all the states in India, Nagaland has a unique history. We are sensitive to this historical fact. But this uniqueness has in no way diminished the spirit of patriotism among the Naga people.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who can forget that in critical times of war in 1962, 1965 and 1971, Naga underground organisations did not fire on the Indian Army? They showed restraint.
- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe the gun is no solution to problems.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
No guns but only brotherhood can resolve the problems.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Pakistan had not accepted the demand to stop cross-border infiltration and the United States had not conveyed to us Pakistan's guarantee to do so, then nothing could have stopped a war.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
This power of democracy is a matter of pride for our country, something which we must always cherish, preserve and further strengthen.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have given up office, but not our responsibility to serve the nation. We have lost an election, but not our determination.
- Greatest Strength
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indian democracy's greatest strength is that we have always put the nation above politics.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our nuclear scientists and engineers have done a splendid job, and naturally, the entire nation has risen to salute their professional excellence, discipline, and patriotism. They have had the benefit of having been led in the past by great men like Homi Bhabha and Vikram Sarabhai.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
India has never played politics with national security.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
India has the sanction of her own past glory and future vision to become strong - in every sense of the term.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let me make one thing clear. I have never considered mere survival in power as any achievement, just as I have never seen coming to power as an achievement in itself.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, power was never an attraction.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
India is a proud and sovereign country. We do not take any decisions under pressure from the U.S. or any other power.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
My message to the people and rulers of Pakistan is, 'As neighbours, we want peace and friendship and cooperation with you so that together we can change the face of South Asia.'
- Individual
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- Nov 07, 2020
The BJP is not a party dependent on a single individual, nor is it tied to the apron strings of a family.
- Corruption
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- Nov 07, 2020