Alok Sharma Quotes
I am delighted that India will be my first official visit since taking up my appointment as a Foreign Office Minister.
Sharma, Alok. "First official visit to India by newly appointed Foreign Office Minister Alok Sharma." GOV.UK, HM Government, 25 July 2016.
There is one condition for us to have healthy relations with the United States. It's called respect.
This is an old and critical concept in American relations with the rest of the hemisphere which Simon Bolivar used to refer to as “respecto.” Americans tend to be relatively unconcerned by what other nations think of America, and since the US has been so successful, it has developed a strong national ego. Other nations, not so successful in modern times, tend to place a great deal of importance on the notion of respect. It is a major factor in most of the world.
Pakistan while feigning alliance during the Afghanistan War was actually supporting terrorist groups and giving safe haven to the Taliban. America poured billions into Pakistan much of which was siphoned off by corruption and much of the money actually funded the Pakistani Intelligence Service which was supporting terrorist groups who in turn were attacking Americans in Afghanistan. Pakistan was paranoid about India and used terrorist groups to harass and attack that country. America had been a little reluctant to form a strong alliance with India as during the cold war they were neutral and did not support us. But it was a real democracy, as opposed to Pakistan, and not duplicitous like Pakistan had been.
Alok Sharma is a British politician. He is currently serving as President for COP26, based in the Cabinet Office, and is a full member of the Cabinet. He has been the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Reading West since 2010.
