September 29, 1979 despite Bhutan's clear desire to handle its foreign relations independently of New Delhi's 'direction'. South Block decided to brief the press of its grave concern over the 'incursions' when the Bhutanese king and his foreign minister were away in Havana. It is an altogether different matter that the bright spirits who briefed the press were quite ignorant of the elementary facts about Bhutan's geographical location
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