Budmaas
December 12th, 2003, 07:05 AM
PM moots single currency, open border in South Asia
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Prime Minister A B Vajpayee on Friday laid the road-map for a harmoniously integrated South Asia, saying open borders and even a single currency for the region were not unrealistic and utopian if "we can put aside mistrust and dispel unwarranted suspicions" and develop "mutual sensitivity to each others' concerns."
Delivering the keynote address at the first Hindustan Times Leadership Initiative on The Peace Dividend: Progress for India and South Asia, Vajpayee said the investment inputs required to reap this dividend were pragmatic politics, rational economics and popular participation.
The PM said: "Our people, businesses and organizations are waiting to interact more closely with each other. This includes producers and consumers, investors and markets, doctors and patients, artists and audiences, students and universities. They are all part of the supply and demand dynamics of a vast sub-continent. They see the unexploited potential in their own neighbourhood. They have waited for over half a century for its fulfillment and are now impatient to move ahead."
Link (http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_493138,001300680000.htm)
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Prime Minister A B Vajpayee on Friday laid the road-map for a harmoniously integrated South Asia, saying open borders and even a single currency for the region were not unrealistic and utopian if "we can put aside mistrust and dispel unwarranted suspicions" and develop "mutual sensitivity to each others' concerns."
Delivering the keynote address at the first Hindustan Times Leadership Initiative on The Peace Dividend: Progress for India and South Asia, Vajpayee said the investment inputs required to reap this dividend were pragmatic politics, rational economics and popular participation.
The PM said: "Our people, businesses and organizations are waiting to interact more closely with each other. This includes producers and consumers, investors and markets, doctors and patients, artists and audiences, students and universities. They are all part of the supply and demand dynamics of a vast sub-continent. They see the unexploited potential in their own neighbourhood. They have waited for over half a century for its fulfillment and are now impatient to move ahead."
Link (http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_493138,001300680000.htm)