Press Releases in September

25.09.2004
PRESS RELEASE
I welcome Prime Minister Dr.Manmohan Singh’s statement in New York that India will provide financial and human resources to Iraq and Afghanistan. This is a first step towards correcting the NDA government’s short-sightedness in dealing with the two countries.

Upon his return to India, Prime Minister should take the next step of dispatching Indian troops to replace US forces in Iraq. Indian troops are mentally and historically better equipped to bring peace and harmony in Iraq compared to troops of NATO countries.

Hence in the interest of freedom, democracy and Iraq’s stability, Indian troops should be sent to that country.
(SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY)

27.09.2004
PRESS RELEASE
Janata Party President Dr.Subramanian Swamy has been invited by the Centre for China in the World Economy, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China to address a gathering of high level government officials and university scholars on the comparative appraisal of the Chinese and Indian economies. He has accepted the invitation, and will go to China in the first week of December.

Dr.Swamy has authored many books and research papers on this subject and has also been teaching one semester at Harvard University every summer during the last several years. Dr.Swamy is also regarded as a friendly personage in the Peoples Republic of China for having contributed to breaking the ice in relations between the two countries in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He was received by China’s leader Deng Xiaoping in April 1981 in recognition of this contribution. During this meeting Chairman Deng agreed to re-open Kailash & Manasarovar to Hindu pilgrims, and Dr.Swamy led the first group of pilgrims to that holy spot in September 1981. As Union Commerce Minister, Dr. Swamy also signed in 1991 the first Trade Protocol with China that allowed border trade between the two countries. In 2001, Dr. Swamy was received by the General Secretary of the International Department of the Chinese Communist Party and honoured at a banquet for his consistent promotion of Sino-Indian relations. Dr.Swamy speaks and writes Mandarin Chinese.
(V.S.CHANDRALEKHA)