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Working together for Shared Peace and Prosperity

IT IS, INDEED, a great honour and privilege for me to have been invited to deliver the Ninth Dinesh Singh Memorial Lecture organised by the Indian Council for South Asian Cooperation (ICSAC) in collaboration with the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA). Late Shri Dinesh Singh had a charismatic personality and had the features of a good politician and a diplomat. He made a significant contribution to bringing India’s foreign policy to a glorious height. The people of Nepal still hold in high esteem the tremendous goodwill that he had for them. I wish to thank His Excellency Shri I.K. Gujral, Chairman of ICSAC for the kind invitation. He is not only among the leading political figures of this great country but also a trusted friend of Nepal. His contributions toward strengthening Indo-Nepal relations as Prime Minister and Minister of External Affairs of India are still fresh in our memory. His policy of good neighbourliness based on non-reciprocity, also known as the Gujral Doctrine, had received wide appreciation in South Asia. As Chairman of this distinguished think tank, he is still contributing significantly to the promotion of India’s relations with the countries in the region and beyond. Before going further, let me express the most sincere appreciation of the government and people of Nepal to the friendly government and people of India for having firmly stood by the Nepali people during their hard-fought battle for democracy. The support that we received from the entire spectrum of Indian society during the second people’s movement was open, swift and robust. We whole-heartedly commend India for its realisation that the Nepali people are capable of deciding their destiny, which marks a major departure in India’s Nepal policy. India has demonstrated that fellow democracies can rely on it to spearhead and defend democratic values around the world. The historic peaceful people’s movement of April 2006 has placed sovereignty in the Nepali people and made them the real source of state authority for the first time