New Delhi: India has found backing at this week’s India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) ministers meeting for its stance that a no-fly zone over Libya must follow multilateral consultations.
India is aware that it has little freedom of action either at the United Nations General Assembly or in the U.N. Security Council, of which it is currently a member, Prof. Pushpesh Pant who teaches diplomacy at the Centre for International Politics, Organisation and Disarmament at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi told IPS.
"India is acutely sensitive to the kind of action that the U.S. and its allies took in Iraq and Afghanistan," said Pant who, as course director for entrants into India’s diplomatic service, is mentor to many of India’s top diplomats.
A joint communiqué issued Tuesday at the end of the two-day seventh trilateral commission declared that a "no-fly zone zone on the Libyan air space or any coercive measures additional to those foreseen in Resolution 1970 can only legitimately be contemplated in full compliance with the U.N. Charter and with the Security Council of the United Nations."
India had made its stance clear before the meeting attended by Brazilian foreign minister Antonio de Aguiar Patriota, India’s minister for external affairs S.M. Krishna and South Africa’s minister for international relations and cooperation, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane.
Nirupama Rao, India’s foreign secretary, had said an Indian decision would take into account the positions of the Arab League, the African Union and the BRIC (Brazil, Russia India, China) group.
09/03/11 Ranjit Devraj/IPS News
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