08-16-2005, 02:24 AM
PM on thank you trip to Paris
PRANAY SHARMA
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->New Delhi, Aug. 14: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will travel to France on a three-day visit next month to try and bring on board âstrategic allyâ Paris on the recent Indo-US nuclear deal.
France has been one of Indiaâs closest allies and was the only Western nation not to criticise Delhi after the May 1998 nuclear tests. The French helped block many sanctions on India following Pokhran II.
Singhâs chief aim is to reassure France that India has not forgotten the role it played after the nuclear test. The growing closeness between India and the US has worried many, including the French.
Paris believes that though it has consistently backed Indiaâs UN security Council bid, as well as its emergence as a recognised nuclear power, its contribution is fast fading from the memory of the Indian leadership.
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PRANAY SHARMA
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->New Delhi, Aug. 14: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will travel to France on a three-day visit next month to try and bring on board âstrategic allyâ Paris on the recent Indo-US nuclear deal.
France has been one of Indiaâs closest allies and was the only Western nation not to criticise Delhi after the May 1998 nuclear tests. The French helped block many sanctions on India following Pokhran II.
Singhâs chief aim is to reassure France that India has not forgotten the role it played after the nuclear test. The growing closeness between India and the US has worried many, including the French.
Paris believes that though it has consistently backed Indiaâs UN security Council bid, as well as its emergence as a recognised nuclear power, its contribution is fast fading from the memory of the Indian leadership.
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