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We must take advantage of world situation: PM

The world could be having apprehensions about China's rise but it wants India to grow.

The world could be having apprehensions about China’s rise but it wants India to grow and it is time to take advantage of the situation,Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said.

“Unlike China’s rise,which possibly gives rise to apprehensions,the world takes a benign view of India’s growth. We should take advantage of that (situation) because we don’t know how long it will last,” he said.

He noted that the world is not apprehensive about India and wants it to succeed.

Singh was talking to accompanying journalists while returning home after his eight-day visit to the US and Brazil,where he attended the Summits of Nuclear Security,IBSA and BRIC.

He said India’s problems are at home and “we have to first tackle our own problems.

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