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India has always been known as a peace-loving country. She championed the cause of peace in the world. Being a large intry, India has a long border and many neighbours with whom has traditionally maintained friendly and good-neighbourly relatIons. In her relations with her neighbours, Indi? has been awing the five principles of the famous Panchsheel, which have Mid dividends. The keynote of India’s policy towards her neigh-DOUrs is further growth of mutually beneficial cooperation and Understanding in various fields, ensuring maximum harmonious and DOrdlal relations. Respect for each other’s territorial integrity, BOn-interference in each other’s internal affairs, peaceful co-existence,Afghanistan, ‘ Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, Maldive, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and China are India’s neighbours. With the exception of China and Pakistan, India has very cordial and friendly relation with all her neighbours.
The relations between India and Afghanistan have been marked by increasingly friendly cooperation in the economic, technical and cultural fields. The visits of the Prime Minister and other ministers of Afghanistan to India in 1975 further widened the area of cooperation between the two neighbours in economic, political and developmental fields.
Indo-Bangladesh relations continued to be further strengthened and consolidated in all spheres in the spirit of close friendship, mutual confidence and cooperation. It was in the spirit of goodwill and cooperation that the land boundary question between the two countries was settled for the cause of peace, welfare and progress of the peoples of the two countries. The visit of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to India and that of Shri V.V. Giri to Bangladesh in 1974 provided an opportunity to the two nations to strengthen the growing ties of cooperation between them. After the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rehman, the policy of Bangladesh towards India witnessed