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V S Chandrasekhar in Moscow
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Tuesday lashed out at the "controls" placed by some developed nations on the free flow of scientific and technological knowledge and said such barriers went against the spirit of science and the goals of global development.
He expressed serious concern over the "present divide" between developed and developing countries and said it couldn't be acceptable to any civilised mind.
"In spite of all the breathtaking advances in science and technology, mankind is still beset with many of the problems of poverty and underdevelopment," he said in his speech at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, where he was awarded an honorary doctorate.
Among those honoured by the university in the past was late prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
The prime minister said the phenomenal expansion of material wealth was often accompanied by shrinkage of man's moral and cultural personality. "Such debilitating development cannot be the destiny of mankind," he said.
PTI
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