Natwar Singh
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"Kunwar Natwar Singh" is an Indian politician, a former senior bureaucrat, a former Government of India/Union cabinet minister, and a writer.

Singh was selected into the Indian Foreign Service, one of the most competitive and prestigious government services, in 1953. In 1984, he resigned from the service to contest elections as a member of the Indian National Congress party. He won the election and served as a union minister of state until 1989. Thereafter, he had a patchy political career until being made India's foreign minister in 2004. However, 18 months later, he had to resign under a cloud after the UN's Paul Volcker Committee/Volcker committee named both him and the Congress party to which he belonged as beneficieries of illegal payoffs in the Oil-for-Food Programme/Iraqi oil scam.

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Our vital national interest.

The Congress party is 120 years old. We are ready to face your questions, we are not under any kind of pressure, our slate is clean.

We discussed the Volcker report and its unsubstantiated references. We also discussed pressing foreign policy matters.

I have come here with a message of goodwill and friendship from the government and people of India for the government and people of Pakistan.

I am foreseeing good friendship between the two countries in the near future.

The validity and credibility of the report is going down by the day.

I said yes as I am not taking it as a personal matter.

I attach a lot of importance to these talks.

We have requested the government to take immediate action to help the students.