Tuesday 12 November 2013

Indo - Sri Lanka Relations by Luv Sharma

India pursued a policy of non-alignment, intended to guide Cold War
geostrategic struggles away from its borders.With the terms of the 1987 Indo-Sri Lankan Accord (ISLA), India sought to gain Sri Lanka’s allegiance as a way to eliminate the USA’s strategic presence in Sri Lanka.Under the ISLA, Sri Lanka had to scrap the American contract for the Trincomalee oil storage facilities, and remove the Voice of America outlet with which the USA broadcast radio messages into Soviet-friendly territory and transmitted intelligence reports. This geostrategic thinking

reflected the Indian policy-makers’ aim to push the USA’s Cold War meddling a safe distance from India’s borders. During the 1980s and early 1990s India’s strategy to avoid the Cold War power struggle eclipsed efforts to support Sri Lanka’s peace and stability. 

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