The latest joint statement issued by the Left Parties has dropped some of its earlier reasons for withdrawing support to the government, like the apathy towards India-Iran gas pipeline, and mentions only three major reasons. Of those three, however, the first and the third are over one and the same concern – India losing its sovereignty. Even in voluntary international agreements, there will be mutual commitments that will inevitably impinge on sovereignty. The Treaty of Peace, Friendship and Co-operation that India signed with the Soviet Union in August 1972 is a case in point. It was between equal parties with identical mutual obligations. Even then, by signing it India forfeited its claim to non-alignment and agreed not to enter for the next twenty years into any obligation, secret or public, with other States, which was incompatible with the Treaty or might cause military damage to the Soviet Union. Was that O.K with the Left?
P.P.Sudhakaran
Bangalore.
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