That certain things should not be published at all and a sort of veiled threat was issued by the home ministry to various papers that they should not publish certain things which are critical of government. May I now turn to some of the specific issues that have been raised in the course of the debate? A major priority of this country's foreign policy, as indeed the foreign policy of all the countries, in its relationship with its neighboring countries. We have many common aspects. We are one people in many aspects because we have cultural ties and we have economic linkages. And where we do not have economic linkages, we have good reasons to have economic linkages. In many respects, therefore, the fraternal spirit that we advocate for the international community as a whole that fraternal spirit must prevail even more vehemently in our own neighbourhoods, in this region, in this sub-continent and therefore the relations with our neighbour and the strengthening of these relations are of priority in our foreign policy objectives. We look at the relationship with our neighbours from two planes one is the multi-lateral plane and that is basically through the regional arrangement of the source and the other is, of course, the bilateral plane. As far as source is concerned, I would like to submit here that the recent source summit held in Colombo last December, we hope, will impart economic content to trowing cooperation amongst the south Asian countries within the source framework. Alleviation of poverty has been accorded the highest priority by the summit leaders who agreed in Colombo to set up an independent South-Asian commission to study and report to the next source summit its recommendations on poverty alleviation in South Asia. With these developments, it is expected that source will be more responsive to the needs and aspirations of the people of South Asia.
