Rice reality check: NAM is past, how can we not join each other

8220;It has lost its meaning,8221; she said, adding 8220;one is aligned not with the interests and power of one bloc or another but with the values of a common humanity.8221;

On Indo-US relations, she said 8220;the question that I would ask is, as fellow democracies with so many interests and principles in common at a time when people of every culture, every race and every religion are embracing political and economic liberty, what is the meaning of non-alignment?8221;

8220;How can we not afford to join each other,8221; she said, on a global scale to support opportunity and prosperity and justice and dignity and health and education and freedom and democracy. 8220;In order to create a partnership for our future and to fully realise it, we are going to have to move past old ways of thinking and old ways of acting.8221;

On the road ahead after the nuclear deal, she said: 8220;It is possible and when we have done this, we will open even more doors in business and science, in agriculture and development, for energy and the environment, and of course, perhaps most importantly, to help strengthen and safeguard international security.8221;