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Multipolarity of world scene
In this era of people's diplomacy, it is very right and necessary that the foreign policy of a country is viewed in the people's forum from time to time. I would like to point out that immediately after I took over, I had sent a motion for a discussion on the foreign policy of the country so that I could begin with some mandate, direction, instructions and suggestions from this House and launch on my new duties with its support. The international situation as we see it today is at an important and crucial stage of evolution, and many developments that are taking place also vitally effect us.
As we all know, the present era is called an era of detente. There was an atmosphere of confrontation, which is being increasingly replaced by an attitude of co-operation. I am saying that it is a trend. It has not still become a reality. The world today is not bipolar, as it was before, but multipolar and it is with the awareness of this situation that we have to watch the new developments.
As we see it, both the Soviet Union and the U.S.A. the two major powers, are adopting a policy of co-operation and with all the strains and difficulties in the way it seems that they are making a slow but definite progress in that direction which we welcome. Some people say that the detente is another way of managing the political crisis. It may be so, but the point is that a new trend of co-operation, instead of confrontation, has come to stay and we support it.
Another important factor in the international scene is the relationship of China with these two major powers. We see that there is a slow but definite understanding between China and the U.S.A. It may be halting, it may be sometimes ambiguous, but I see, on the one hand, a definite trend of understanding between the U.S.A. and China. On the other hand, the relationship between China and the U.S.S.R., is clouded with suspicion and mistrust.