CONCERN OF EVERY COUNTRY IS ONLY SELF INTEREST – By N.S.Venkataraman
India has now proposed to send a delegation of members of parliament to selected countries abroad to explain India’s stand with regard to the recent conflict with Pakistan and to convince the other countries about the justification for India’s actions.
In the overall geo political scenario , the approach of every country to various issues is based only on self interest and with little consideration for principles and fair play . The ground reality is that the world is, by and large , conflict ridden and strife torn , with no permanent enemies or no permanent friends between countries , with relationship constantly being altered between countries based on developing scenario and the priorities of individual countries.
Global communication network is now very strong and every country knows what is happening in other countries.Therefore, the countries know what the Indian delegation would say even before receiving them.
In such circumstances, it is likely that the delegates from India visiting other countries to explain India’s stand would be received with courtesy and listened . Obviously, the approach of other countries would only be based on their trade and other relationship with India and Pakistan in the present geo political condition , without considering the merits of the explanations offered by the Indian delegates.
No doubt, there is global concern about terrorism and acts of terrorists and the fact that such terrorists have a base to operate in a few countries, without which they cannot operate and execute their terrorist activities. However, condemnation of the countries harbouring the terrorists by individual countries is only based on their overall trade and other aspects of relationship with such countries known to be offering base to terrorists.
Today, a number of countries face acts of terrorism on their soil in one form or the other and ultimately, the affected countries are left to themselves to fight against terrorism on their soil.
Every country has no option other than defending itself from terrorist attacks and war like situation by strengthening its economic , industrial and military base . This is really what is really happening.
In such scenario, the United Nations is conspicuous by its lack of effectiveness in avoiding conflict in the world . If UNO is effective, then there would be no need for India to send delegates to other countries to explain its stand even without being invited by other countries to do so.
India has to send the delegates to explain its stand to other countries for whatever it is worth ,so that misinformation would not spread , as the U N as a forum has lost its significance.
