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Today India and South Africa bilateral relationship acquires much significance due to three reasons. First, both countries are leaders of the developing world. Second, they both support the reform of UN and aspire to be the member of expanded UN Security Council. Third, they both want to ensure maritime security in Indian Ocean. Their relationship goes back to the period during which Mahatma Gandhi started movement in South Africa. After independence in 1947, India not only severed trade relationship with South Africa’s apartheid government but tried to put the issue of apartheid on the agenda of United Nations.
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