Iran-Sri Lanka strategic relations
Common borders, faith and culture are enabling factors that facilitate inter-state ties. These are, however, neither necessary nor sufficient elements. Relations between a Muslim Pakistan and a communist China, a multi-ethnic Sri Lanka and a Muslim Iran, a Hindu India and a Christian Russia underscore this point. Two factors that determine the potential and progress of inter-state relations are ‘compulsions’ and ‘conditions’. Palpability of situation, emanating from mutual distrust and induction of weapons of mass destruction has possibly made this region the most tension-ridden and insecure. These causes continue to haunt professors of peace the world over.
In recent days, exchange of high level delegation between Iran and Sri Lanka has opened a new door of scepticism for India. In response to the Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s tour to Iran in November last year, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran was scheduled to visit Sri Lanka. It is not a customary development insofar as India is concerned. Indian think tanks have started throwing full venom against the emerging relations between these two states.
Sri Lanka is a centuries-old Indian Ocean state, which has retained its entity and enjoyed sovereignty in various forms through the years of its existence as a multi-ethnic and multi-lingual plural society. Of late, it caught up in a quagmire of internal ethnic strife that has hitherto claimed innumerable precious lives, weakened its ideological composition and built quite a bad image across the globe.
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In recent days, exchange of high level delegation between Iran and Sri Lanka has opened a new door of scepticism for India. In response to the Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s tour to Iran in November last year, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran was scheduled to visit Sri Lanka. It is not a customary development insofar as India is concerned. Indian think tanks have started throwing full venom against the emerging relations between these two states.
Sri Lanka is a centuries-old Indian Ocean state, which has retained its entity and enjoyed sovereignty in various forms through the years of its existence as a multi-ethnic and multi-lingual plural society. Of late, it caught up in a quagmire of internal ethnic strife that has hitherto claimed innumerable precious lives, weakened its ideological composition and built quite a bad image across the globe.
Read more,
http://thepost.com.pk/OpinionNews.aspx?dtlid=158772&catid=11
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