External Affairs Minister K Natwar Singh told the international community to correct the nuclear imbalance.
But the external affairs minister also warned against expecting miracles during the visit of the Pakistan Prime Minister.
NDA leaders meet President, seek Natwar's removal
This will be India's first high-level political contact with the new Iranian government.
On being asked whether he knew Sehgal, he told reporters, "Andaleep Sehgal is also our acquaintance but as far as his business, his trade or his financial transactions are concerned I am not familiar with it.
The ED had initiated proceedings against the two for alleged violation of FEMA.
"It was a conspiracy of US in which Congress and the media were also involved," he alleged.
This is part of high-level exchanges between India and Bhutan.
He said G-4, the group comprising Germany, Japan, Brazil and India, should be credited with putting forward the UNSC reforms, including expansion of the security council, on agenda of the UN and it could not be reversed.
Iraq can send its personnel to India for training on the conduct of polls, Natwar Singh said.
The duo had approached the court when the government body refused to provide all documents collected by it in the oil-for-food scam.
New Delhi hopes Musharraf will stand by his commitment not to allow Pakistani territory to be used for terrorist acts against India.
Sibal, however, added that Natwar's removal did not mean that he was guilty.
The allegations had been made by Natwar after his indictment by the Pathak panel.
IT units in West Bengal have been promised protection during strikes.
The external affairs minister has confirmed that he will be attending a SAARC foreign ministers meeting in Islamabad in July.
The government on Friday approved a slew of measures to push the peace process including further liberalisation of the consular and visa services.
Directing them to appear before the ED on April 24, a bench comprising Justice T S Thakur and Justice Kailash Gambhir also rejected the father-son duo's plea seeking copies of all the documents, related to the scam, available with the government. The court was hearing their petition challenging an order by a single judge bench, which rejected their plea seeking copies of all the documents related to the scam.
Describing the meeting as "a very good one", Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran told reporters that basically what 'she (Rice) did was to set the stage for the important meeting between President Bush and the prime minister'
He said the US signed the nuclear agreement with India on July 18, 2005 after which it made certain fundamental changes, which were not in the larger interest of the country.
He said while Indian participation in the Sakhalin-1 project demonstrated the joint capabilities and mutuality of interests, India was fully prepared with its technical and financial resources to expand its presence in the Russian energy sector.
The plea challenges a single bench order of the high court that refused to provide all the documents on Iraq's oil-for-food scam to them.
Diplomatic sources also indicated that the Indian minister may brief the Russian leadership on the progress made in India-Pakistan composite dialogue.
Natwar on a three-day visit to Bangladesh from Saturday
As a debate continues over comments made about Sonia Gandhi in a new book by Natwar Singh, senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid on Sunday said the issue has left an "unpleasant taste" and the former minister has forgotten the "good counsel and guidance" that he himself used to give.
The three will be among 22 others attending the third ACD Foreign Ministers' meeting from June 21-22.
The frosty relationship between Sonia Gandhi and late Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao comes out in full view in Natwar Singh's autobiography which says Gandhi was "never fond of" Rao who wondered why she was so "hostile" to him.
"Now the question is why the Indian government decided to act on a report, which was completely trashed in other parts of the world. This I would reveal in my new book, which I am going to write soon," he said.
Natwar said he favoured the closest of relations between India and the United States.
It was a United Nations Committee and Washington had nothing to do with it.
Jagat, a legislator whose trip to Iraq in January 2001 along with his father during a Congress delegation's visit is under the scanner, said Natwar would step down as promised.
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