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	June 5, 2000

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"Despite all the hype about a globalised economy spreading butter over the bread of developing countries, the fact is that nothing much has happened."
George Fernandes, Union defence minister, at the South Asia Conference on Human Development in Delhi

"I admit I am a weak chief minister because I cannot do injustice to anyone."
Ram Prakash Gupta, Uttar Pradesh chief minister, responding to criticism from dissidents that he was indecisive

"I have often dreamt of visiting Sri Lanka ... but what is important in the present context is to bring peace."
Dalai Lama, Tibetan spiritual leader, while offering to mediate in the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka

"I think cricket is clean. It's being unnecessarily tarnished by people who are using it to settle personal scores."
A.C. Muthiah, president, Board of Control for Cricket in India, while talking to reporters in Delhi

"This is not a party of leaders. Workers have always been the strength of the Congress."
Rajesh Pilot, MP and dissident Congressman

"If they want me replaced as UPCC chief, they should first try to convince Sonia Gandhi."
Salman Khursheed, UPCC president

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