India stands a fair chance of success in the race to the top job in the United Nations, the country's nominee for UN secretary generalship Shashi Tharoor indicated on Monday.

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"We would not have been in this race if we didn't believe there is a reasonable prospect for success," Tharoor told reporters after a 30-minute meeting with Prime Mnister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi.

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