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9/13/06

India eNews: India urged to join Asia-Europe grouping


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India urged to join Asia-Europe grouping

New Delhi - India has been urged to join a grouping of Asian and European countries that feels that New Delhi can play a ‘very positive and important’ role in view of its rising economic and political status. The sixth summit of Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) that took place in Helsinki Sep 11-12 invited India, Mongolia and Pakistan from Asia and Bulgaria and Romania from Europe besides the ASEAN Secretariat to become its members. The proposed enlargement would take the strength of the 10-year-old ASEM from 39 countries to 45, ahead of the next ASEM summit in Beijing in 2008.

‘India’s involvement is a very important matter,’ Francisco de Camara Gomes, head of the delegation of the European Commission here, told a news conference.‘Taking into consideration India’s growing important, political and economic, we are confident India will make a very positive and important contribution,’ he said.

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