Missing the Minister ; Faced with India's Expanding Diplomatic Agenda and His Preoccupation with His Core Job, Manmohan Singh Is Finding It Difficult to Do Justice to His Role As the Foreign Minister
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In the corridors of South Block there is usually a steady volume of top secret files shuffling from one office to another. But of late the route to the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) from the Foreign Office has been jammed with the mounting traffic of Ministry of External Affairs (mea) files which are piling up on the prime minister's desk. The reason: it has been more than six months since Prime Minister Manmohan Singh took over the foreign affairs portfolio, after former external affairs minister K. Natwar Singh resigned in December 2005.
Though there have been precedents of prime ministers doubling up as foreign ministers-Jawaharlal Nehru, P.V. Narasimha Rao, I.K. Gujral-given the magnitude of India's diplomatic progress, the 74- year-old prime minister is now finding it difficult to cope up.See the full content of this document
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Missing the Minister ; Faced with India's Expanding Diplomatic Agenda and His Preoccupation with His Core Job, Manmohan Singh Is Finding It Difficult to Do Justice to His Role As the Foreign Minister
While Manmohan may be credited with having steered India's foreign policy well at a critical juncture, especially on the Indo- US nuclear deal, the fact is that it is physically not possible for him to meet the ever-increasing demands of foreign policy. This has also left India's neighbours feeling neglected as he...
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