Full text of the interview with Sujatha Singh

January 30, 2015 11:13

"It hurts when it becomes a question of individuals -- of this personality versus the other personality, about brilliance and about not having experience.

"I would challenge anybody to look at the record of the Ministry of External Affairs, over the past 18 months that I have been Foreign Secretary, and to say that any part of our foreign relations have suffered or that any part of our strategic engagement with the rest of the world, and, more importantly with the neighbourhood, has not got the attention that was due to it because I was Foreign Secretary.

"I am satisfied that there is nothing more that I could have done or anybody else could have done."

Former foreign secretary Sujatha Singh's interview to the Hindu after she was sacked yesterday. Read

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