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Afro-Asian leaders vow
to reshape destiny
What is India News Service,
Monday, 25 April 2005, 1700 hrs IST
Asian and African leaders on Sunday signed
a \91New Strategic Partnership\92 to ensure peace, stability and security in
the two continents by boosting trade and stepping up cooperation in war against
terrorism and transnational organised crimes.
A hundred Asian and African
leaders began retracing the historic journey of the 1955 Bandung Conference,
with a more than an apt symbolic gesture, a walk.
Indonesian President Susilo
Bambang Yudhoyono and South African leader Thabo Mbeki inked the four-page
declaration on the New Asian-African Strategic Partnership (NAASP) in this
historic town where the countries from the two continents got together for the
first time in 1955 and subsequently created the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).
The leaders from over 100
Asian and African countries including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, had adopted
the declaration at their two-day summit in Jakarta which ended on Saturday.
India represents
Asia at summit: Reflecting its enhanced stature in world affairs, India
today got a rare honour when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh spoke for the whole
of Asia at the signing ceremony of a historic Asia-Africa strategic partnership
agreement and advocated reforms in the United Nations and international
financial institutions.
Delhi
tells Dhaka: Fix date, we are ready for Saarc: India has said it is ready to
accept any suitable date for the SAARC summit in Dhaka\97postponed twice
already\97if it was acceptable to other members of the seven-nation group. This
was conveyed by External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh.
Naxals: Patil for compassion: Home Minister Shivraj Patil\92s prescription
for dealing with Naxalites included more employment opportunities.
India sees foul
play in reports on nuclear issue: The Government of India smells a rat in
recent reports in the international press casting aspersions on Indian nuclear
programm
States
Hooch
kills 8 in Karnataka: Illicit liquor is easily available in the region. In
fact, it has already killed 18 people in Hassan district over the past few days.
Gujarat
govt orders judicial probe into attack on Lalu: In an apparent pre-emptive
move to stonewall any action by the Centre, the BJP government in Gujarat has
ordered a judicial probe into the attack on Railway Minister Lalu Prasad in the
state.
Shahabuddin\92s
house raided, arms seized: The police in Bihar raided the ancestral home of
controversial RJD MP Mohammad Shahabuddin in Siwan district early today, seizing
arms and ammunition and arresting three persons.
Pak woman training
Indian jail inmates: The blustering bonhomie on both sides of the Radcliff
line notwithstanding the friendly hand being extended by Ms Huma Parveen, a
Pakistani national, to her Indian jail inmates in learning cutting and tailoring
has never caught the attention of media.
Neighbours
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Pakistan ministerial talks with
EU: Pakistan and the European Union will hold ministerial talks in
Luxembourg on April 27 despite recent tension over the European Parliament\92s
decision to boycott talks with a Pakistani senator.
Bomb blasts damage railway track
in Pakistan: Train service between Quetta, Peshawar and Lahore was suspended
when two powerful bomb blasts ripped apart a portion of the Kashmore-Sibi
section between Tangwani and Bijarani railway station.
Leghari calls for greater Pak
cooperation with China: Former President Sardar Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari
underlined the need of greater Pakistan-China cooperation promoting regional
peace and development...
View from abroad
S.
Arabia approves citizenship for expats: The government of Saudi Arabia has
amended a bylaw to the Naturalization Law as a result of which qualified
expatriates can apply for Saudi citizenship from May 23.
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