| Indira Gandhi in the first period of 10 years in power, India has a strong policy of promoting regional implementation of the South Asian region in international affairs, foreign policy and the implementation of large non-aligned policy, making the diplomatic front, India has made substantial progress in establishing the South Asian a regional power status. Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Singapore and other five countries in order to rely on the collective strength to promote their own development and enhance its international influence, in August 1967 established the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. This is to prevent it from becoming a pawn in great power struggle, while the country's development has created a favorable international environment. India and ASEAN countries have a variety of links on history, from the religious, cultural to the political and economic aspects. From the establishment of the ASEAN to the 20th century 70 years,Mrs Gandhi government's first step down the relationship between India and ASEAN by the gradual run-in, close and then to cool in the wake of the international situation and national foreign policy changes occur. India and the former Soviet Union signed a treaty formed a paramilitary alliance, while the ASEAN countries and the United States has consistently led the company of the Western alliance, which led to alienation and indifference of both sides. However, India and the ASEAN common security, economic and other needs, leading to gradually adjust its Association of Southeast Asian Nations, India's knowledge and policies, which made the bilateral relations between India and ASEAN in the stable development in the run-down.Mrs Gandhi period of India's foreign policy of the ASEAN countries will help to understand Mrs Gandhi administration's foreign characteristics, India, ASEAN, the early history of the policy development and impact of the Indian Association of Southeast Asian Nations policy, various international and domestic factors. |
