अटल बिहारी वाजपेयी के सुविचार By Editorial Team - October 5, 2020 No state should be allowed to profess partnership with the global coalition against terror while continuing to aid, abet, and sponsor terrorism. There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states. People who ask us when we will hold talks with Pakistan are perhaps not aware that over the last 55 years, every initiative for a dialogue with Pakistan has invariably come from India. The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world’s poor. The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be. There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states. We believe that the United States and the rest of the international community can play a useful role by exerting influence on Pakistan to put a permanent and visible end to cross-border terrorism against India. You can change friends but not neighbors. We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest.