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Publication: Hindustan Times
Date: January 29, 2010
URL: http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/europe/India-happy-with-its-role-in-Kabul/Article1-502894.aspx
India said it is "quite satisfied"
with its current developmental role in Afghanistan but stopped short of rejecting
any offers of an expanded security responsibility as a global conference began
Thursday to secure the future of the terror-racked South Asian nation.
"We do not know what is going to emerge
out of this conference - depending upon what emerges, the role of India will
become much clearer," said External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna.
"But our role, because of our long-standing
relationship with Afghanistan, (is that) we are helping them out in their
development agenda of infrastructure development. And we are quite satisfied
with the role that we have in Afghanistan," he said. Krishna added: "We
appreciate the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's call for India's involvement
in the emerging scenario of Afghanistan."
