NOTES AND REFERENCES‌

1. It includes world political climate, world public opinion and world organisations.

2. India again re-established full diplomatic relations with South Africa in 1994 when the policy of racial discrimination was finally given up and democratic government under Nelson Mandela came into existence.

3. A.S. Narang: Indian Government and Politics, Gitanjali, 2000 Edition, p. 602.

4. D.N. Mallik: The Development of Non-Alignment in India’s Foreign Policy, p. 165.

5. India 2009: A Reference Manual, Publications Division, Government of India, p. 530.

6. Based on Keynote address delivered by Minister of State for External Affairs, E. Ahamed, at the first India- Central Asia Dialogue, June 12, 2012 at Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

7. Press Information Bureau, Government of India, December 23, 2015.