“For thousands of years, we have shared our knowledge and experience,” he said.
Vienna:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said that India gave ‘Buddha’ to the world, not ‘Yuddha’ (war), which means it has always given peace and prosperity and hence the country will strengthen its role in the XXI century.
Addressing the Indian community in Vienna, PM Modi also said that India is working to be the best, the brightest, achieve the greatest and reach the highest milestones.
“For thousands of years, we have shared our knowledge and experience. We have not given ‘Yuddha’ (war), we have given the world ‘Buddha’. India has always given peace and prosperity and therefore India will strengthen its role in the century 21”, said Prime Minister Modi in Austria, a day after arriving here from Moscow, where he highlighted the importance of finding a peaceful solution to the conflict in Ukraine during his talks with President Vladimir Putin.
Describing his first visit to Austria as “significant”, PM Modi said that after 41 years, an Indian Prime Minister visited the country.
“This long wait has come to an end on a historic occasion. India and Austria celebrate 75 years of friendship,” he said.
“India and Austria are geographically at two different extremes, but we have many similarities. Democracy connects the two countries. Our shared values are freedom, equality, pluralism and respect for the rule of law. Our societies are multicultural and multilingual. Both countries celebrate diversity and a great way to reflect these values is elections,” he said, amid chants of ‘Modi, Modi’.
Recalling the recently concluded general elections, PM Modi said that 650 million people exercised their right to vote and despite such a huge election, the election results were declared within hours.
“It’s the power of our electoral machine and democracy,” he said.
More than 31,000 Indians live in Austria. The number of Indian students in the country is over 450, according to the Indian embassy here.
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