India’s Neighbourhood Diplomacy

India’s policy of ‘Neighbourhood First’ focuses on creating mutually beneficial, people-oriented, regional frameworks for stability and prosperity.

Government is committed to developing friendly and mutually beneficial relations with all its neighbours.

Policy Initiatives:

India is an active development partner and is involved in several projects in these countries.

India’s policy of ‘Neighbourhood First’ focuses on creating mutually beneficial, people-oriented, regional frameworks for stability and prosperity.

Our engagement with these countries is based on a consultative, non-reciprocal and outcome-oriented approach, which focuses on delivering benefits like greater connectivity, improved infrastructure, stronger development cooperation in various sectors area, security and broader people-to-people contacts.

With Pakistan, the Government desires normal neighbourly relations and is committed to addressing all outstanding issues bilaterally and peacefully in accordance with the Simla Agreement and the Lahore Declaration.

Modi invited all the SAARC leaders to his swearing-in ceremony and on a subsequent day he held bilateral talk with all of them individually.

Recently in a launch event at ISRO, Modi asked Indian scientists to take the endeavour to develop a dedicated SAARC satellite to share the fruits of the technology like tele-medicine, e-learning etc. with the people across South Asia to complement the currently operating Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation Programme in the region.

India First

“India First” means that what India needs/wants from each economic and technology power will be expressed with greater clarity and specificity and these counties have to respond in the way think appropriate

India’s decisions will then be based on the comparative benefit-cost ratio of dealing with different countries on a defined set of issues, not on philosophical and/or ideological consideration of (non-) alignment.