Foreign Policy

Policy Writer: Naya Yug |

These foreign policy agenda’s are the social and political objectives defined by Naya Yug. It may or may not reflect the views of the Government of India (or any Ruling Party). These objectives are also not endorsed by anyone outside Naya Yug. We have defined these as our foreign policy agenda for Naya Yug - An Indian Movement.

• Section 6.1 - India should seek for Permanent UN membership, with veto power.
• Section 6.2 - Start building stronger ties with Europe, North America, South America, Middle East, Asia and Asia Pacific region.
• Section 6.3 - Continue to increase bi-lateral trade with developed and developing economies.
• Section 6.4 - Start new initiatives for the growth of under-developed economies.
• Section 6.5 - Increase bi-lateral trade, student exchange program and cultural initiatives with Pakistan.
• Section 6.6 - China and India should continue a security and foreign policy dialogue that was launched in 2005.
• Section 6.7 - Various talks and confidence-building measures should continue to defuse tensions over Kashmir. Kashmir today is the site of the world’s largest and most militarized territorial dispute with portions under the de facto administration of China (Aksai Chin), India (Jammu and Kashmir), and Pakistan (Azad Kashmir and Northern Areas).
• Section 6.8 - India and Pakistan should continue to maintained the 2004 cease fire in Kashmir and initiate discussions on defusing the armed stand-off in the Siachen glacier region.
• Section 6.9 - Resolve dispute with Pakistan over India’s fencing the highly militarized Line of Control and construction of the Baglihar Dam on the Chenab River in Jammu and Kashmir, which is part of the larger dispute on water sharing of the Indus River and its tributaries.
• Section 6.10 - India should not recognize Pakistan’s ceding historic Kashmir lands to China in 1964.
• Section 6.11 - Continue discussions on a maritime boundary - India and Pakistan should seek technical resolution of the disputed boundary in Sir Creek estuary at the mouth of the Rann of Kutch in the Arabian Sea.
• Section 6.12 - India should not negotiate on Pakistan’s Junagadh claim in Indian Gujarat State.
• Section 6.13 - Open discussions with Bangladesh to resolve river boundary issues, to exchange territory for 51 Bangladeshi exclaves in India and 111 Indian exclaves in Bangladesh, to allocate divided villages.
• Section 6.14 - India should continue to fence off high-traffic sections of the border near Bangladesh.
• Section 6.15 - India should not negotiate on dispute with Bangladesh over New Moore/South Talpatty/Purbasha Island in the Bay of Bengal.
• Section 6.16 - India should strengthen cooperation with Bhutan to keep Indian Nagaland and Assam separatists from hiding in remote areas along the borders.
• Section 6.17 - Joint Border Committee with Nepal should continue to examine contested boundary sections, including the 400 square kilometer dispute over the source of the Kalapani River.
• Section 6.18 - India should continue to maintains a strict border regime to keep out Maoist insurgents and control illegal cross-border activities from Nepal.
• Section 6.19 - Increase border security to stop illegal cross-border trade, migration, violence, and transit of terrorists through the porous border.

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