10. Based on a speech delivered at the National Press on October 6, 1975 in Washington (U.S.A.). In the speech, it was further stated: "The Indo-U.S. joint commission, which was set up last year during the Dr. Kissinger, the U. S. Secretary's visit to India, has met and reviewed the progress of work done in the three sub-commissions and has given appropriate guidelines and set targets for the future. This institutionalisation of relations is already proving useful. If various ideas thrown up during the last year are implemented, the joint commission could open a new era in our relations. Both our countries have come a long way from the relationship which existed in the fifties and early sixties. An approach based on narrow aid relationship is beneficial to neither country. We both have to adopt more mature and realistic attitudes towards each other. In pursuance of its policy, India seeks the friendship and co-operation of the United States on the basis of mutual understanding and respect that must exist among sovereign nations. Trade is an important area in our relationship."
11. Article published in Socialist India, New Delhi on August 14, 1975. Reference to the resolution of the impasse in India-Pakistan relations in the first half of 1975 and the high level of economic and technical co-operation under the Indo-Soviet treaty dealt with elsewhere have been omitted.
12. Edited version of the reply to the debate on the demand for grants for the Ministry of External Affairs on April 16, 1975 in the Lok Sabha. The speech has been shortened and outdated references, replies to interruptions and introductory paragraphs omitted.
13. Speech at the International Conference on the Indian Ocean, convened by the World Peace Council and the Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organisation at the invitation of the All-India Peace and Solidarity Organisation on November 14, 1974 in New Delhi. In the opening paragraphs of the speech it was stated: "The response to this conference has been encouraging judging by the large number of distinguished delegates from abroad and from within the country who are present here." The fact that the conference is of a non-official nature does not diminish, but rather increases its significance; for there is need for full public awareness in all countries of what is happening in the Indian Ocean and for more active support of the people in the common task of preserving peace and tranquility in the Indian Ocean. The Government and people of India wholeheartedly endorse the objectives of this conference, namely the elimination of foreign military bases from, and preservation of peace in the Indian Ocean. This is so, not for any reasons of expediency but of principle and deep conviction.
