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In India's Northeast, Peace and Foreign Ties Quietly Spread
The New York Times | Samrat | March 13, 2012, 7:14 AM :
Suddenly, there’s a flurry of activity between Northeast India and Myanmar, as barriers have started to lift. On Feb. 22, largely unnoticed by the news media, India’s foreign minister met with Myanmar’s construction minister in Delhi.
The two spoke about starting a bus service between Imphal, in India, and Mandalay, in Myanmar, increasing the number of flights, and opening a highway between Moreh, in India, and the Myanmar-Thai border near Mae Sot, according to Vishnu Vardhan Reddy, an under secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs. A new route from Kaladan, Myanmar, to Northeast India by water and land was also discussed, he said. Officials from India’s Civil Aviation Ministry are expected to visit Myanmar this month.
Since 1991, India’s central government has had a "Look East Policy" that envisages closer ties with the country’s eastern neighbors. It’s a policy that has made only halting progress, but now the government is clearly looking to ramp up the pace.
Work on the Trans-Asian Railway, which aims to connect Asia from Istanbul to Hanoi, is now under way in Manipur. For months, the United Naga Council, an organization of the tribal Naga people in India’s Northeast, had blockaded this. It was an action imposed to push for autonomous administration of Manipur’s hill districts. Northeast Frontier Railways spokesman S. Hajong confirmed that work on the section of railways from Jiribam to Tupul near Imphal is proceeding.
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