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India’s External Relations
Various aspects of India’s foreign policy are as mentioned below :
(i) Policy of Non-alignment.
(ii) Friendly relations with Russia.
(iii) Afro-Asian Unity.
(iv) Comprehensive nuclear disarmament without discrimination.
(v) Use of Atomic energy for peaceful purposes.
(vi) Solution of international disputes by negotiations and peaceful methods.
(vii) Support for UNO.
If I were a decision maker, I would like to retain the following two aspects of India’s foreign policy :
(i) Comprehensive nuclear disarmament without any discrimination. The reason is that a nuclear war would destroy human civilisation on earth.
(ii) Solution of international disputes by negotiations and peaceful methods, as it is based on mutual consensus.
I would like to change the following two aspects :
(i) Policy of non-alignment: The reason for change is that in the present unipolar world is that it has become irrelevant.
(ii) Friendly relations with Russia :We should prefer USA to Russia anymore in this unipolar world.
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“Broadly, non-alignment means not tying yourself off with military blocs... It means trying to view things, as far as possible, not from the military point of view, though that has to come in sometimes, but independently, and trying to maintain friendly relations with all countries. ” —Jawaharlal Nehru
(a) Why does Nehru want to keep off military blocs ?
(b) Do you think that the Indo-Soviet friendship treaty violated the principle of non-alignment ? Give reasons for your answer.
(c) If there were no military blocs, do you think non-alignment would have been unnecessary ?
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