INDIA: BRITAIN PIME MINISTER TONY BALIR AND HIS INDIAN COUNTERPART MANMOHAN SINGH HOLD A JOINT NEWS CONFERENCE

Record ID: 1136203

  • Title: INDIA: BRITAIN PIME MINISTER TONY BALIR AND HIS INDIAN COUNTERPART MANMOHAN SINGH HOLD A JOINT NEWS CONFERENCE
  • Date: 8th September 2005
  • Summary: (W3) UDAIPUR, RAJASTHAN, INDIA (SEPTEMBER 08, 2005) (ANI) LV BRITISH PRIME MINISTER TONY BLAIR AND MANMOHAN SINGH, INDIAN PRIME MINISTER ENTER NEWS CONFERENCE SV JOURNALISTS MCU (English) BLAIR SAYING: "People know that this, this global terrorism, that we face in India and Britain and right around the world comes from a perversion of the true faith of Islam and the way of dealing with it is not simply the security measures that governments have got to take to protect their people but through tackling the roots of it, which lie in extreme and fanatical teaching of this perversion of Islam and whether it's terrorism in India or it's terrorism in Britain its role is not morally wrong but utterly destructive. It stops people coming together. It stops people understanding each other. It prevents dialogue on difficult issues and that's why, increasingly over time, I have come to the view that we should not compromise with it and neither incidentally do I think it sensible for us to say that it derives from our failure to understand the muslim world. The vast majority of muslims also abhor this terrorism." MCU AUDIENCE LISTENING MCU (English) SINGH SAYING: "The struggle against terrorism has to be a multi-faceted struggle where terrorists must not succeed, for that we have to co-operate, we have to ensure maximum possible co-operation among civilised countries but also, as the prime minister has said, in the final analysis it is a struggle for the mind of our people through education through proper dialogue, inter-faith dialogue. We must intensify effort to promote a culture of understanding, a culture of respect for diversity, a culture of tolerance for points of views different from one's own." LV BLAIR AND SINGH STANDING AT PODIUM MCU (English) SINGH SAYING: "Prime minister Tony Blair reaffirmed his commitment to India's candidature for the permanent membership of the expanded UN Security Council on which I expressed our deep appreciation for his government's clear and long-held position." MCU AUDIENCE LISTENING MCU (English) BLAIR SAYING: "I would say the challenge is for us to translate into action the words that we have agreed and to make sure respectively that we're continuing the process of opening-up that over the past few years has meant a great increase in the amount of business that we are doing together but I think that we're both acutely aware of the fact that there is an enormous potential still to be developed. I met a group of Indian business people this morning"...inaudible. LV NEWS CONFERENCE
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  • Location: UDAIPUR, RAJASTHAN, INDIA
  • Country: India
  • Topics: General,Politics
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