informed, the Soviet Navy has approached some of our ports, at least party. And Russia is too big a power, too strong a power, that in a long time, I mean, in a long period of our relationship, whether India can really remain sovereign and non-aligned?
Prime Minister: This indeed is a very extraordinary question, if I may say so. Perhaps the gentleman has been out of India for a considerable time and he does not know how we feel. If the Soviet Union is on the Indian Ocean, well, so are many other Navies, there. He has not suggested that any other Navy, being there is also going to influence us. So, therefore, why should the Soviet influence be more than the others? Every country in the world, small or big, does try to influence others countries. The question is whether we are going to withstand that pressure or not. We have always withstood pressure. We have fought for our independence. We have not appealed or begged for it. We have fought for it with our lives (Prolonged applause).
