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“The Treaty of Perpetual Peace and Friendship between India and Bhutan needs to be revised with more pragmatic, realistic obligations and responsibilities.” Comment.

  • UPSC 2017
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  • India and South Asia

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The instrument is the Treaty of Friendship signed at Darjeeling on 8 August 1949, whose first article declares "perpetual peace and friendship". It carried over the 1910 Punakha bargain: India would not interfere in Bhutan's internal administration, and Bhutan would be "guided by the advice" of India in external relations. The real question is whether…

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