Kakodkar sees need for pro-active foreign policy

January 30, 2015 12:00 am | Updated 05:38 am IST - Manipal:

Anil Kakodkar, former Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, said on Thursday that the country should leverage its strengths and overcome its weaknesses and have a pro-active foreign policy.

He was delivering the inaugural address at the national seminar on “India’s foreign policy orientations” organised by the Department of Geopolitics and International Relations of Manipal University in collaboration with the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata, here.

Dr. Kakodkar said that the country had a reactive foreign policy for long and it had become necessary to study and analyse the future while formulating the policy. It was necessary to involve people from India who had settled abroad. The soft power was large, but it could be bigger, he said. The country needed to grow faster, not just economically but also in the fields of science and technology, he added.

0 / 0
Sign in to unlock member-only benefits!
  • Access 10 free stories every month
  • Save stories to read later
  • Access to comment on every story
  • Sign-up/manage your newsletter subscriptions with a single click
  • Get notified by email for early access to discounts & offers on our products
Sign in

Comments

Comments have to be in English, and in full sentences. They cannot be abusive or personal. Please abide by our community guidelines for posting your comments.

We have migrated to a new commenting platform. If you are already a registered user of The Hindu and logged in, you may continue to engage with our articles. If you do not have an account please register and login to post comments. Users can access their older comments by logging into their accounts on Vuukle.