India and Asean: The long road to dialogue

Round Table

Volumn , Issue 340, 1996, Pages 465-477

  Sridharan, Kripa ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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EID: 5844349412     PISSN: 00358533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00358539608454333     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. B. A. Hamzah, ASEAN Relations with Dialogue Partners (Petaling Jaya (Malaysia), Pelanduk Publications, 1989), p 3.
2. See Yuen Foon Khong, 'ASEAN's Post-Ministerial Conference and Regional Forum: a convergence of post-Cold War security strategies', in Peter Gourevitch et al (eds), US-Japan Relations and International Institutions after the Cold War (San Diego, CA, University of California, 1995), pp 41-43.
3. ASEAN Update (Jakarta, ASEAN Secretariat), July 1994, pp 15-16.
4. For a more elaborate treatment of India's relations with ASEAN see Kripa Sridharan, Indian Foreign Policy in the ASEAN Region (Aldershot, UK, Dartmouth, 1996).
5. The Indian President V. V. Gin during his visit to Kuala Lumpur expressed his country's unequivocal support for ZOPFAN. See Indian and Foreign Review, Vol 10, April 1973, p 5.
6. See Sridharan, op cit, pp 85-88.
7. India hailed the summit as an effort to consolidate peace and stability in the entire South-east Asian region. See Times of India, 15 June 1976.
8. Hindu, 20 December 1976.
9. News Review on Japan, Southeast Asia and Australia (New Delhi, Institute of Defence Studies and Analysis, 1976), p 847.
10. Ibid, 1977, p 53.
11. Indian Express, 25 September 1976.
12. Statesman, 25 July 1976.
13. See A. B. Vajpayee, New Directions of India's Foreign Policy (New Delhi, Vision Books, 1979), p 213.
14. Hindu, 17 November 1978.
15. For details of the first official level meeting between ASEAN and India see Foreign Affairs Malaysia, 1980, pp 162-166.
16. Mr Rao expressed his inability to attend the meeting owing to his mother's serious illness. This was, however, perceived as an excuse by ASEAN once it became clear that India was on the verge of recognizing the PRK regime. Under the circumstances Mr Rao's absence was perhaps the most prudent course of action.
17. New Straits Times, 10 October 1981.
18. India's then Foreign Secretary (East) Eric Gonsalves indicated that India would be unwilling to make political concessions for the sake of a dialogue relationship. See New Straits Times, 20 May 1981.
19. Ibid, 21 May 1981.
20. Ibid.
21. Donald E. Weatherbee, 'The diplomacy of stalemate', in the author edited Southeast Asia Divided: The ASEAN-Indochina Crisis (Boulder, CO, Westview Press, 1985), p 12.
22. See Statements from Heads of Government at ASEAN Economic Ministers Meetings 1975-1985 (Jakarta, ASEAN Secretariat, 1986), pp 55-56.
23. See 'Seoul's trade talks with ASEAN', Far Eastern Economic Review, 25 April 1980, p 74.
24. Ibid.
25. For details see ASEAN Update, July 1994, p 6.
26. Ibid, January 1994, p 1.
27. Straits Times, 14 February 1995.
28. Mukul G. Asher, 'India and ASEAN: the next step', Hindu, 13 November 1995.
29. Foreign Broadcast Monitor (Singapore), 28 September 1995.
30. For a survey of India-Singapore politico-diplomatic interactions see Kripa Sridharan, 'The evolution and growth of India-Singapore relations', in Yong Mun Cheong and V. V. Bhanoji Rao (eds), Singapore - India Relations: A Primer (Singapore, Singapore University Press, 1995), pp 21-39.
31. The Arts (Singapore), November/December 1995, p 4.
32. Straits Times (Editorial), 20 December 1995.
33. Mukul G. Asher and Ramkishen S. Rajan, 'Singapore - India economic relations: exploring synergies for mutual relations', in Yong Mun Cheong and V. V. Bhanoji Rao (eds), Singapore - India Relations: A Primer (Singapore, University of Singapore Press, 1995), p 117.
34. There is some recognition in Singapore that 'India can play a positive and constructive role in Asian security as it grows in economic strength and political influence'. See Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong's statement in Straits Times, 4 January 1995.
35. Straits Times, 17 January 1996.
36. Straits Times, 4 January 1995.
37. For this view see Hindustan Times (editorial), 19 December 1995.
38. Straits Times, 17 August 1994.
39. 'India miffed at being left out of Asia-EU summit', Reuters, 4 December 1995.
40. During his visit to Singapore in September 1994 Prime Minister Rao observed, 'My present endeavour is to draw, as much as possible investment and cooperation from the Asia-Pacific countries, in consonance with our common concept and solidarity and my faith in our common destiny'. Straits Times, 9 September 1994.
41. See Business India (Bombay), 9-22 October 1995.
42. See Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, 'South Korea reaches out to India', Straits Times, 1 March 1996.