‘We’ve to disentangle India from strategic embrace of US’

After opposing the Indo-US nuclear deal, the CPM said it would focus its attention on undoing ‘military pact’ and ‘disentangle’ the country from the ‘strategic embrace’ of the US.

After opposing the Indo-US nuclear deal, the CPM said it would focus its attention on undoing ‘military pact’ and ‘disentangle’ the country from the ‘strategic embrace’ of the US.

“The defence framework agreement and the nuclear cooperation agreement are part of an overarching alliance. The CPM and the Left parties have already declared that the nuclear deal cannot go forward,” CPM general secretary Prakash Karat said inaugurating the 19th Congress of the party.

“But the task is not over. We have to undo the military collaboration agreement. We have to continue to struggle disentangle India from the strategic embrace of the US,” Karat said.

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Karat also appealed to ‘progressive and democratic’ forces in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka to join the campaign to check ‘growing imperialist penetration’ in the region.

Karat said that CPM could take legitimate credit for bringing foreign policy and strategic matters on the centre stage of Indian politics.

Ever since the Indo-US joint statement in July 2005, announcing the strategic partnership, the party understood what was being touted was nothing but ‘wholesale shift’ in the foreign policy of the country and strategic perspective, he added.