NAGPUR: India will soon come up with a comprehensive plan aimed at solving the Gulf crisis Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar announced Feb 11 in this city of Maharashtra state.
He told newsmen here although the Soviet Union Iran and the nonaligned and Arab nations had failed so far to end the gulf war India was hopeful and was making efforts to end the conflict.
India’s external affairs Minister Vidya Charan Shukla is currently in Belgrade attending NAM foreign ministers meet to solve the gulf problem.
The prime minister made it clear that India had not extended refueling facilities to US military aircraft under pressure the decision criticised by most political parties.
India is the last nation to succumb to any pressure from any country” Chandra Shekhar said when asked if his government had given the facilities under pressure to the US to get the international monetary fund loan.
The prime minister said that refueling facilities had been granted earlier to friendly countries but stressed that India had always ensured that the planes did not carry military hardware.
Article extracted from this publication >> February 15, 1991
