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By Amit Baruah
The Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, with the President of the Republic of Korea, Roh Moo Hyun, in Bali on Monday. — PTI
Giving a read-out of the discussions, the External Affairs Ministry spokesman told presspersons that the Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and the South Korean President, Roh Moo-Hyun, during their meeting, agreed on the need to strengthen the United Nations. Mr. Vajpayee, who also met with the Vietnam Prime Minister, Phan Van Khai, arrived here early this morning from New Delhi.The Prime Minister, who held his first-ever meeting with Mr. Roh Moo-Hyun, welcomed the visit of the South Korean President to India next year. While agreeing that the two countries had a cordial relationship, they stressed the need for more economic exchanges and increase in trade and investment. The spokesman said the two leaders during their 30-minute-long meeting also agreed on the need to revive the joint commission between India and South Korea. The South Korean Foreign Minister is expected to visit New Delhi sometime this year. On his part, Mr. Roh Moo-Hyun briefed the Prime Minister about the latest developments on the Korean peninsula — in the context of developments relating to North Korea. According to the spokesman, the South Korean leader expressed admiration for India's leadership role in the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and as a pioneer in software development. In his view, there was a ``natural synergy'' between Indian software and Korean hardware. During his meeting with Mr. Vajpayee, the Vietnamese Prime Minister noted the importance of the ``framework agreement'' for comprehensive economic cooperation that ASEAN and India were to sign on Wednesday. This, Mr. Phan Van Khai, would lead to stronger trade ties between India and ASEAN. The Vietnamese leader, the spokesman said, also stressed the need to increase economic exchanges between the two countries as well as greater cooperation in the field of science and technology. It was also agreed that a Vietnamese delegation would visit New Delhi to conclude a $27 million line of credit to Hanoi. The External Affairs Minister, Yashwant Sinha, called upon the international community to salvage the Doha round of trade negotiations which collapsed at the recent ministerial meeting in Cancun. ``Nothing is lost yet. We should salvage the Doha Development Round,'' Mr. Sinha said at a dinner meeting organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). India, Mr. Sinha said, wanted to bring the Doha round to a ``successful end'', but made it clear that this could not happen on terms laid down by the developed world. Mr. Sinha said the Government of India was not ``lagging behind'' in helping business promote business abroad. India, he said, was on the move and the rest of the world now had to deal with a ``resurgent'' nation. Referring to Asian countries in general, the External Affairs Minister, referring to the East Asian financial crisis, said lessons had been learnt from the problems of the last five-six years. ``We are all determined not to make the mistakes committed in the past.'' Asia, he felt, had to provide leadership to the rest of the world. Already, growth in Asia was making ``global growth'' more respectable. He pointed out that India and the ASEAN together had a population of 1.5 billion people. ``We don't have to look elsewhere. There is so much we can do together,'' he said, adding that ``oriental spiritualism'' needed to be synthesized with ``modern technology'' to produce a ``unique alchemy''.
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