India’s Look West Policy: An Evolving Framework- UPSC Daily Important Topic | 19 August 2022
India’s Look West Policy: An Evolving Framework
✓Despite long historical ties, India’s links to the Gulf countries in the last few decades had come to be defined by the twin factors of energy imports and labour exports.
✓In 2005 P.M. Manmohan Singh officially argued that “the Gulf region, like South-East and South Asia, is part of our natural economic hinterland. We must pursue closer economic relations with all our neighbours in our wider Asian neighbourhood. India has successfully pursued a Look East policy to come closer to the countries of South-East Asia. We must, similarly, come closer to our western neighbours in the Gulf.”
✓This statement had the elements of the “Look West Policy” which further received momentum and shape through Prime Minister Modi’ trips to Saudi Arabia, UAE, Iran and
Israel since 2014.
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