New York, Sept 25. — A significant meeting on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly was the “troika” meeting of the foreign ministers of India, Russia and China, at which the three “agreed to adopt a common approach” on a variety of key issues, including Iraq and reforms to the UN system.
Being held for the second year in a row, the “troika” appears set to assume an institutional mechanism, by which India will coordinate with two members of the P-5 (permanent members of the UN Security Council) to form a stronger pressure group for influencing the remaining three “Western” members of the P-5 — the USA, France and Britain — on pressing international issues.
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