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India
welcomes pro-democracy wave in Middle East, North Africa: PM
Friday March 18, 2011 05:45:17 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: India
Friday welcomed the pro-democracy wave sweeping the Middle East
and North Africa, with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh saying that
"these are decisions for countries and their citizens to take for
themselves."
"As a democracy, we are happy to see our brothers in West Asia
(Middle East) and North Africa taking an increasing role in
determining their own future. These are decisions for countries
and their citizens to take for themselves, free of outside
interference or coercion," he said at the India Today Conclave
here.
"India will do what it can to support the decisions that the
people and countries of the region take about their own future. As
close neighbours and historical friends, we have a major stake in
their peaceful, orderly evolution. Over six million of our
citizens live and work in this area," he added.
India's trade, economic and human ties with the countries of South
Asia, East Asia and the Middle East are deep and historical, he
said.
"We have to find new pathways of cooperation with these countries
to create new opportunities for growth and development," he added.
"The balance is also shifting between states in the global system.
The old order is clearly changing. A new order, however, is yet to
be born. No country has a greater interest and stake than India in
a rule-based and predictable international system within which we
can grow and develop," he stressed.
A series of revolutions have swept across the Middle East and
North Africa with a public outcry for democracy and human rights
echoing in many countries.
It started with the "Jasmine Revolution" in Tunisia followed by
the uprising in Egypt that began Jan 25 and Libya later.
Bahrain, one of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, also
saw major public protests that led to the intervention of GCC
armed forces in the island kingdom. And Yemen has witnessed
repeated violence, seeking ouster of its leader Ali Abdullah Saleh.
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