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International Affairs
SPEECH BY SHRI K.R.NARAYANAN, PRESIDENT OF INDIA, WHILE RECEIVING CREDENTIALS FROM MR. ABD GHAFAR BIN ISMAIL, HIGH COMMISSIONER DESIGNATE OF BRUNEI DARUSSALAM

NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 16, 2001

Excellency,

I am very pleased to receive from His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan, the Letter of Credence accrediting you as the High Commissioner of Brunei Darussalam to India. I extend a warm welcome to you and hope that your stay in India will be enjoyable and your tenure, fruitful.

I also wish to thank His Majesty the Sultan for the kind sentiments he has expressed for me and the people of India. Please convey, Excellency, my best wishes to His Majesty for his good health and personal well-being as well as for the happiness and prosperity of the people of Brunei Darussalam

India and Brunei enjoy traditionally friendly and cooperative relations based on our longstanding cultural and commercial contacts. Over the past few years, our ties have shown steady growth. The visit of Her Royal Highness Princess Hajah Masna, Ambassador-at-large to India last year has helped in giving further impetus to our bilateral relations. We value our ties with Brunei and would like to see them further expanding in various fields.

India attaches great importance to its relations with South East Asian countries and aims under its ‘Look East’ policy to further strengthen these relations. We value our dialogue partnership with ASEAN and membership of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF). After five years of successful India-ASEAN cooperation we are now looking forward to further upgrading our interaction with ASEAN. In this connection, India looks forward to a close relationship with Brunei in the areas of bilateral cooperation and in the context of India’s dialogue partnership with the ASEAN.

Excellency, we are confident that your wide-ranging experience and skill as a diplomat will help you to contribute towards furthering our bilateral relations. In this task, I would like to assure you of the fullest cooperation and assistance of my Government. I wish you every success in your mission in India.

Thank you

Jai Hind
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