From the archive record
It was the time for driving tough bargains and outlining the country's foreign policy in New York. Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in his maiden Germany to the American shores as a Chief Executive of India did it with a quite candor. Mr. Vajpayee offered in his commitment to participate in talks to hold productions of fissile material and undertook not to transfer nuclear weapons or know how to other countries. Significantly the Prime Minister chose not to respond to the Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's addressed the U. N. Mr. Vajpayee however stuck to India's policy concerns and obliquely referred to Pakistan when he said that India had to cope with terrorism aided and abetted by neighboring country for nearly two decades This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage arc