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Congress slams NDA govt's foreign policy

The Congress party on Saturday slammed Vajpayee government's foreign policy saying 'the standing of India among the world community has been lowered'.

"The NDA government has neither domestic policy nor foreign policy. Whatever it has, has lot of contradictions," senior Congress leader and former external affairs minister Natwar Singh told reporters on the sidelines of the Congress chief ministers' conclave in Mount Abu.

Calling for reinventing the Non Aligned Movement, Singh said only India could do this, adding the NAM, which fought colonialism, imperialism and apartheid in the past, should now divert its energy in fighting global terrorism, drugs and AIDS.

On the UN resolution asking Iraq to scrap its weapons of mass destruction, Singh said Iraqi President Saddam Hussein should accept it and act accordingly.

"It is good instead of taking any unilateral decision of attacking Iraq, the United States took the UN route,' he said.

On the withdrawal of troops from the border, Singh said, "We will raise the issue in Parliament as to what was the need for deployment of forces and what the country achieved by doing so and what prompted to withdraw the forces."

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