Actions speak louder than words. Zardari and co said a similar thing that they are against intervention. Doesn't mean anything.
We sent envoys to Syria first from the non-permanent group of UNSC members.
What are you expecting us to do?
Send our military in?
That will contradict our stand in the very first place "No external intervention".
There's a big difference between being elected non-permanent member of UNSC and just any country issuing statements.
We officially made our stand against a NATO intervention and it pissed the Americans off real bad.
In fact, all the BRICS countries stood against invasion of Syria.
india has strong relations with Syria and Iran's enemies in the region.
india has strengthened its defence ties with Saudi in recent years, as well as it has been pushing towards limiting its dependence on Iranian oil at the request of Saudi Arabia in order to isolate Iran and strangle its economy.
You guys really don't understand geo-strategy, do you?
For your country-folk, it is always either this or that. Never a stable balance.
Well, can't blame you considering you've not really stood alone on your own in your modern history.
See, our ties with KSA, Israel, Iran, Brazil, Chile and any other country on this planet, are BILATERAL.
Let's see what this means:
It means what we have with a country X, stays between India and the country X.
If X has a problem with Y and the fight and Y is also a friend of ours, then we will not participate in the war on behalf of either X or Y and at the most, try to encourage X and Y to solve their problems without a conflict. In such a scenario, we will not be against either but see what can be the best way to solve the problem; or keep out of it altogether.
But then this doesn't go in line with what you said in your previous post:
How?
What has IDF got to do with our political stand?
No country influences our external affairs and Israelis do what they deem is best in their neighbourhood.
It has neither asked us nor we are telling them what to do and what not to do.
But in UN we made our stand clear and it had an impact.
The best part of this was that we were consistent with China and Russia (All 3 BRICS members with 2 of them as permanent members).
That's what matters from our side.
How do you stand with Russia and Syria when you have strong relations with the states actively supporting and funding these armed groups? By being neutral. Lol, you've got to be kidding me.
Sigh...
You need to understand international affairs well before commenting.
I suggest you to re-read the X and Y example above I gave in italics.