Experience of imperialist machinations in Kashmir, Goa military base in Diego Garcia and of sincere cooperation with socialist countries and the advantages of joint struggle with the third world nations provided firm popular base for the progressive foreign policy. This enabled India to build democratic and free international relations play a prominent role in this sphere and in building the NAM movement and win prestige and honour. In the changed case relation of forces today and the new world trends it has become of ever greater importance to maintain the direction of the policy, to develop ever broader cooperation and expanding international relations and foreign trade on more equitable basis and fight consistently for a new international economic order and rectify the present inequitous world financial system. Consistent efforts for developing South-South cooperation and NAM to firmly stand for peace and national independence to resist neocolonialism have to be further developed. Closer cooperation and friendship with China, Cuba, Vietnam and Democratic people's Republic of Korea etc have acquired added importance today.
Special attention has to be paid to the countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America.
An important task in this field is to work for the further democratising and strengthening of the UN and for structural changes in its set up. The goal of a world without weapons and wars also requires that the UN be strengthened much more ensuring equal status for all countries in it, and their democratic participation through giving the general assembly resolutions and decisions due respect and also giving non-governmental organisations the possibility to participate in UN's decision making through regular consultation. The Security Council's role must be reviewed so that a small fraction of member states is not allowed to take decisions on crucial issues of peace and security without the consent of the general assembly. The limited composition of the group of permanent members also needs to be changed in consonance with the all inclusive characters of the world body.