| Balance between UN organs should be restored: India | 20-NOV-09 |
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| Concerned over the UN Security Council encroaching upon the General Assembly's agenda, India has said the balance between the world body's principal organs must be "maintained and respected" and the centrality of the United Nations restored. |
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| US should support India for Security Council | 19-NOV-09 |
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| The Obama Administration should endorse India's membership to a permanent seat in the UN Security Council during the state visit of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh scheduled next week, a noted American scholar said on Wednesday. |
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| Nitin Desai: A new global oligarchy | 19-NOV-09 |
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| At the Pittsburgh Summit on September 24-25, 2009, the leaders determined that the G-20 will replace the G-8 as the “permanent council for international economic cooperation”. A new global oligarchy is coming into being and India is a part of this charmed circle. We are chuffed about the invitation to sit at the high table. In Washington next week, President Obama will ensure that this feeling of having arrived is further reinforced. |
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| Cold War and cold warriors | 16-NOV-09 |
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| While Germany celebrated the 20th anniversary of the end of the Cold War in Europe, symbolised by the fall of the Berlin Wall, some remnants of that inglorious era remain. North and South Korea, the Palestinian problem and, in a manner of speaking, the Af-Pak logjam. All essentially legacies of the Cold War. So, while Europe may pop champagne bottles, Asia will have to wait before it can celebrate the end of the Cold War legacy. But there is a bigger legacy issue waiting to be addressed. That is the intellectual legacy of the Cold War. The idea that one or two or even five Big Powers can run the world. In some ways, the creation of the G-20 has undermined this Cold War legacy, but the G-20 is as yet a talk shop. Unless institutions of power are able to re-adjust themselves to new global power equations of the post-Cold War era, we cannot really say we have put the past behind us. |
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| New French move may halt trade in generic medicines | 17-OCT-09 |
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| Developing nations such as India and Brazil that are finding their trade in generic medicines disrupted due to confiscation of drugs as part of ‘anti-counterfeit’ initiatives in Europe are in for a bigger problem. A new international ‘anti-counterfeit medicine campaign’ has been kicked off by former French President Jacques Chirac. |
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| The stakes in Afghanistan | 15-OCT-09 |
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| The recent terrorist attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul has once again drawn attention to the high risks associated with India’s developmental role in Afghanistan. As Indian Ambassador Jayant Prasad told this newspaper, anti-Indian elements in the region have never been able to come to terms with India’s ground-level popularity among the Afghan people. It is a testimony to India’s commitment to the Afghan people that so many Indians choose to work for Afghanistan’s reconstruction and development, against such odds. Rather than ask the question ‘What is India doing here’, as an American general did the other day, the US must ask ‘What can we all do together’ to find a lasting solution to Afghanistan’s problems. Neither India nor the US would want India to get involved militarily in fighting the extremist forces in the region. |
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| Iran agrees to put all nuke issues on the table | 03-OCT-09 |
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| Iran bowed to international pressure yesterday by agreeing to begin comprehensive negotiations with the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany on all aspects of its controversial nuclear programme. |
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| India dares opponents of UNSC expansion for a straw poll | 04-SEP-09 |
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| Hitting hard at the countries who have been blocking expansion of UN Security Council in both the permanent and non-permanent categories, India today dared such nations to schedule a straw poll in the UN General Assembly to prove they have the numbers. |
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| India dares opponents of UNSC expansion for a straw poll | 03-SEP-09 |
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| Hitting hard at the countries who have been blocking the expansion of UN Security Council in both the permanent and non-permanent categories, India today dared such nations to schedule a straw poll in the UN General Assembly to prove that they have the numbers. |
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