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Carla Bruni ‘eager’ to meet David Cameron

May 16, 2010 By vani Leave a Comment

London, May 16 (ANI): Carla Bruni has reportedly indicated that she’s looking forward to meet David Cameron when her husband, Nicolas Sarkozy, visits London next month.

While the French Prez has been “shouting and bawling” at Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, over the euro”s woes, his wife, Carla, is looking forward to improving foreign relations.

According to The Telegraph, the 42-year-old former model is eager to accompany her hubby, 55, when he visits London next month, so that she can meet David, 43.

“There is a very good chance that she will come,” says a source at the French embassy. (ANI)

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N-deal will boost US security, economy: Lugar

July 8, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

By Arun Kumar
Washington, July 7 (IANS) The landmark India-US civil nuclear deal resulting in a strong and enduring partnership with New Delhi would enhance America’s national security and economy, a top US lawmaker said Tuesday.

However, the implementation of this historic deal would depend greatly on the diplomatic work by the new US ambassador to India, Senator Dick Lugar, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said at a confirmation hearing for Tim Roemer, President Barack Obama’s nominee for the job.

“With this pact, our country embraced a policy based on the premise that the national security and economic future of the United States would be enhanced by a strong and enduring partnership with India,” he said.

“Although the agreement has been concluded, its success will depend greatly on the diplomatic work overseen by our next ambassador,” the senator said, adding: “Roemer’s national security experience will be put to excellent use as ambassador to India.”

The landmark India-US Peaceful Nuclear Cooperation Agreement concluded in 2008 was one of the most important strategic diplomatic initiatives undertaken by the US in the last decade, he said.

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Bosnian leaders show disunity with partial snubbing of Serbia

May 25, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Belgrade – A top Bosnian Serb leader arrived in Belgrade Monday for a visit that he said was aimed at “relaxing” relations between Bosnia and Serbia, but he came without the crucial support of his Muslim and Croat counterparts.

The Serb representative in Bosnia’s tripartite Presidency, Nebojsa Radmanovic, travelled alone to Belgrade on the invitation of President Boris Tadic after his Muslim and Croat counterparts, Haris Silajdzic and Zeljko Komsic, refused to go.

Muslim and Croat leaders had turned the invitation down over long-standing legal and diplomatic rows stemming from the 1992-95 Bosnian war and Belgrade’s role in it.

Radmanovic said his visit was aimed at easing the strain on relations between the two countries caused by mutual accusations and lawsuits.

“The visit is naturally burdened because my two colleagues from Croat and Bosniak (Muslim) nations will not come. They have their reasons, but I disagree with them,” Radmanovic said.

He warned that Bosnia’s relations were deteriorating with its two “big neighbours,” Serbia and Croatia, both heavily involved on the side of their compatriots in the Bosnian conflict.

Bosnian foreign relations however only reflect the hostility that persists among the country’s ethnic communities in Bosnia 14 years since the US brokered a deal to end the war.

The peace agreement established nearly-sovereign entities, one with a Muslim and Croat population, the other for Serbs. Now mutual hatred keeps the leaders from working together and has blocked the country achieving closer ties with the European Union.

With Radmanovic’s lonesome trip to Belgrade and the display of deep divisions among Bosnian leaders came less than a week after US Vice-President Joe Biden bluntly told them to “stop this” and begin working across ethnic divides.(dpa)

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Australia must engage India more in wake of Singh’s enhanced authority

May 21, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Melbourne, May 21 (ANI): There can hardly be a friend of India anywhere who does not rejoice at the electoral success of Dr. Manmohan Singh, the former Cambridge economics don.

The Kevin Rudd Government must swiftly take advantage of the new situation in India, reports The Australian.

Singh’s Government will be stronger on economic reform, though it is unlikely to move at dizzying speed. But Singh has identified energy and education as the two great blocks to Indian development. The nuclear deal addresses energy, but there will be much more liberalisation in the energy sector to come. It’s also likely that foreign universities will ultimately be allowed to establish campuses in India, both of which are obvious opportunities for Australia.

Rudd had planned to go to India in January, but Singh had a heart attack. Both Rudd and Foreign Minister Stephen Smith are determined to put India in the front rank of Australia’s foreign relations. Rudd is sure to visit India soon, says the paper.

Meanwhile, Indian and US intelligence agencies have concluded that a part of the Pakistani state that lent some support to the terrorists who attacked Mumbai last November, did so for a very specific reason, internal to Pakistan.

The Pakistani military was so desperate to escape US pressure to fight the Taliban in their northwest that they wanted to provoke a limited Indian military reaction. This would have justified abandoning the fight against the Taliban and rushing troops back to the Indian border.

The relevant intelligence agencies, including our own, further conclude that a further Pakistan-originated terrorist outrage after Mumbai would have virtually forced an Indian military response of some kind, even just a strike at terrorist training facilities in Pakistan.

Only the measured, moderate, mature leadership of Singh and his senior colleagues kept India calm in the face of the Mumbai outrage.

Now that Singh’s authority is massively enhanced, the dynamics have changed. One of the few good elements in the regional geo-strategic equation that we can rely on is steadiness in Indian policy, The Australian claims.

According to the paper, Singh stands now as one of the greatest statesmen in Asian history. He is the first Indian Prime Minister to serve a full term and win re-election since 1961. He has brilliantly expanded India’s centre, marginalizing both its Left and its Right. (ANI)

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Nepal parliamentary team says large tracts of Nepali land encroached

February 2, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Kathmandu, Feb 2 (ANI): The Nepal parliamentary team conducting field study on encroached land in various bordering areas of the country has concluded that large tracts of the Nepali land have been encroached upon by India at various points.

A team of Foreign Relations and Human Rights Committee found that the Indian side has encroached Nepali land in Manebhanjyang, Guphapatal, Pulkhola, Phatak, Hile, Chhabise and Simala.

The team led by committee chairman Padma Lal Bishwokarma began inspection of encroached land following media reports of land encroachment at various bordering areas.

The committee expressed grave concern over the matter and said that land being cultivated by the Nepalis for years has now become part of Indian territory.

“The recently prepared map of border areas cannot be regarded as reliable for demarcation between the two nations,” Nepalnews quoted Bishwokarma as saying.

“The committee will submit report of the field study as soon as possible to find the solution of the problems,” he added.

The team members said that security personnel of the Seema Suraksha Bal (SSB), an Indian paramilitary force deployed along the Nepal-India border, has set up its camp inside the Nepali territory in Pulkhol of Pashupatinagar including Hile and Guphapatal. (ANI)

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Carla Bruni ‘eager’ to meet David Cameron

N-deal will boost US security, economy: Lugar

Bosnian leaders show disunity with partial snubbing of Serbia

Australia must engage India more in wake of Singh’s enhanced authority

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