Domestic threats more serious than external ones: Ansari
Wednesday November 03, 2010 10:57:01 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
Domestic threats "loom large" in the list of threats facing the
nation, apart from external security issues, Vice President
Mohammad Hamid Ansari said here Wednesday.
"My own view is that in the typology of threat, domestic threats
to policy are looming very large," said Ansari, after releasing a
book "In the National Interest: A Strategic Foreign Policy for
India".
The book is authored by former diplomats Rajiv Kumar, currently
FICCI secretary general, and Santosh Kumar. The function was
jointly organised by the Indian Council for Research on
International Economic Relations and the external affairs
ministry.
Ansari said that if India is not able to manage the domestic
threats, then it will impact the country's external thrust.
He also expressed worry that India was scoring less on the front
of technological research.
"No country can call itself a major
power unless it is backed by sufficient innovative technological
research," said the vice president.
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