India\'s Saudi Policy - P. R. Kumaraswamy, Md. Muddassir Quamar

110 from establishing diplomatic relations with Israel and its recognition of Israel on 17 September 1950—incidentally, the day ...

111 rights of the Palestinian people is another cornerstone in the structure of a lasting peace. Israel’s refusal to vacate Arab ...

112 signs of interest and policy convergence. They were pronounced in the 1970s and 1980s when anti-Israeli rhetoric was politic ...

113 Kuwaiti sensitivities, the statement made no direct reference to Israel (India, MEA 2006b). Similar approach of a reiteratio ...

114 initial months, even Prime Minister Modi continued this pattern with President Pranab Mukherjee (India, MEA 2015b) and Vice- ...

115 the Cold War was different and both were trying to present a different and even antithetical image of themselves to the outs ...

116 move to the Arab people” (Labelle 2011 , 261). Soon afterwards, Roosevelt promised the Saudi monarch that he “would take no ...

117 The Free Officers coup witnessed the emergence of Nasser and Israel’s decision to launch the Suez War in collaboration with ...

118 mujahedeen. After the Soviet withdrawal, the Afghan Arabs as they were termed returned to their home countries and created h ...

119 Similarly, the Saudi leadership has been seeking intra-Palestinian reconciliation and the most prominent step in this direct ...

120 effect were signed by India’s ambassador in Lebanon S.  K. Singh on 10 January 1975 (Asian Recorder 1975 ). This paved the w ...

121 other world bodies.” Coming weeks before the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, both countries felt that “a just and durable peace ...

122 Palestinian people and the realization of their cherished aspiration for their own sovereign state on the basis of a compreh ...

123 ConClusIon During much of the Cold War, the Indo-Saudi relations were dominated more by contrasts than by convergences. Inte ...

124 RefeRenCes Ansari, M. H. (2016, January 5). Remarks by Shri M Hamid Ansari, Honourable Vice-President of India at the launch ...

125 India, MEA. (2003a, January 25). The Republic of India and the Islamic Republic of Iran “The New Delhi Declaration” 25 Janua ...

126 India, MEA. (2015a, March 30). Prime Minister’s telephonic conversation with King Salman bin Abdul aziz Al Saud of Saudi Ara ...

127 Kumaraswamy, P.  R. (1995). India’s Recognition of Israel, September 1950. Middle Eastern Studies, 31 (1), 124–138. Kumarasw ...

128 UNGA. (1948, February 24). Cablegram dated 24 February 1949 from the Acting Mediator to the Secretary-General, transmitting ...

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