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Write an essay for or against the following proposition. “With the disintegration of the second world, India should change its foreign policy and focus more on friendship with the US rather than with traditional friends like Russia”.



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India should not change its foreign policy and focus more on friendship with the US, but India is required to maintain healthy relations with Russia because India has experienced a long band of mutual trust, interests and popular perceptions with Russia in the following manner:

  1. Russia and India share a vision of multipolar world order. By a multipolar world, order means co-existence of several powers in the international system, collective security, greater regionalism, negotiated settlements of international conflicts, an independent foreign policy for all countries, and decision making through bodies like UN that should be strengthened, democratised, and empowered.
  2. More than 80 bilateral agreements have been signed between India and Russia as a part of the Indo- Russian Strategic Agreement of 2001.
  3. India stands to benefit from its relationship with Russia on issues like Kashmir, energy supplies, sharing information on international terrorism, access to Central Asia and balancing its relation with China.
  4. Russia is important for India’s nuclear energy plans and assisted India’s space industry by giving, for example, the cryogenic rocket to India whenever India needed it.
  5. Cooperation with Russia and its republics like Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan in the form of partnership and investment in oil fields has also benefited India.
  6. Russia stands to benefit from this relationship because India is the second largest arms market for Russia. The Indian military gets most of its hardware from Russia.
  7. Russia and India have collaborated on various scientific projects.

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