Kachchativu Settlement- Befriending Neighbouring Regimes

India's leadership has a clear stake in stabilising and consolidating the existing distribution of power, political patterns and strategies for socio-economic development in the South Asian region. Towards this goal, the Indian leadership is endeavouring to evolve a consensus, together with its counterparts in South Asia, on the issues of peace, security and stability that are vital to itself and also to the neighbouring regimes. As a natural corollary, India's leadership is keen to strengthen such governments in South Asia which would be amenable to its perception of the subcontinent and willing to work towards the evolution of the desired consensus. The removal of minor irritants like the Kachchativu territorial dispute is part of the movement towards achieving this consensus.