India Has An Intrinsic Link In The World: Khurshid

Singapore: India provides intrinsic and important link between the developing and the developed world, and maintains a distinct relationships with the United States and China on individual basis, says External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid.

"I think, that expectation of India is reflected in people supporting India for a permanent seat in the [United Nations] Security Seat whenever the UN is reformed," he said in an interview with the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), a think tank of National University of Singapore.

"[This is] because they [people] think we provide intrinsic and important link between the developing world and the developed world," stressed Khurshid in the interview.

He highlighted India’s relationships in the Group of Twenty, and with Brazil, Russia, China and South Africa.

"This is the reflection of a current, contemporary situation in which there are different expectations from India, but still expectations of leadership. "And, we are trying to fulfill those," added Khurshid.

He pointed out that India has something to do with China, Russia, the United States, Africa, Southeast Asia and Latin America.

Among other countries in the world, "I have tried to find a balance approach," he stressed.

Touching on the new Border Defence Cooperation Agreement with China, he said "it's incremental."

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