India’s Border Roads Organization had recently completed the first all-weather road connecting the two countries since WWII. Journeying on this “road to fabled Mandalay,” I recorded in my diary, was a highlight of “one of the most memorable, satisfying, and happy foreign visits in my experience as Foreign Minister.”
这就是那个我十多年前到访的缅甸，而这也是自印度独立以来本国外交部长首次对这个邻国展开访问。印度的边境公路组织最近完成了连接两国的全天候公路，也是自二战以来两国首次实现了交通对接。在这条“通往传说中的曼德勒之路”上飞驰，我在日记上写道，“是我外长经历中最值得记念，最令人满意，也是最快乐的一次外交访问。”