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Atal Bihari Vajpayee (14)

Birth:	25th December, 1924
Nationality:	Indian
Profession:	Prime Minister, Statesman

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• Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one’s own culture and social organisation.

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• Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries.

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• In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere.

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• People who ask us when we will hold talks with Pakistan are perhaps not aware that over the last 55 years, every initiative for a dialogue with Pakistan has invariably come from India.

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• Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.

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• No state should be allowed to profess partnership with the global coalition against terror, while continuing to aid, abet and sponsor terrorism.

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• The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be.

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• The UN’s unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries.

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• The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world’s poor.

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• The overwhelming public sentiment in India was that no meaningful dialogue can be held with Pakistan until it abandons the use of terrorism as an instrument of its foreign policy.

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• There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.

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• We believe that the United States and the rest of the international community can play a useful role by exerting influence on Pakistan to put a permanent and visible end to cross-border terrorism against India.

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• We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.

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• You can change friends but not neighbours.

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