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The Future of South Asian Cooperation: a Partnership for the Twenty-First Century

Surya Bahadur Thapa is the former Prime Minister of Nepal. IT IS A great honour for me to be invited by the Indian Council for South Asian Cooperation (ICSAC) to deliver the Dinesh Singh Memorial Lecture for this year. Since its inception, ICSAC has played an important role in our part of the world in exploring the potential which South Asian countries have to offer in partnership with one another. I believe that the long-term ideals which unite us as South Asians are far greater than the temporary obstacles that sometimes seem to stand in the way of our cooperation. The Dinesh Singh Memorial Lecture, named after a distinguished South Asian, provides us with an opportunity