World Needs Global Leadership, Drnovsek and Indian PM Agree
President Janez Drnovsek and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh agreed in New Delhi on Monday that the world is unbalanced and lacks global leadership, the president's office has said. In their opinion this is increasing the tensions between the rich and the poor.
The pair, who met at the sidelines of a two-day international conference entitled "Peace, Non-Violence and Empowerment: Gandhian Philosophy in the 21st Century", said that the world lacks coordinated activities that would stop threats to the environment.
Principles of Gandhi's policy are increasingly important in today's world, for it is obvious that big problems and crises cannot be solved with violence but only with talking and increasing awareness, Drnovsek said.
The pair moreover stressed the urgency of UN reforms and pointed to the need to balance the composition of the Security Council.
Drnovsek and Singh also agreed that the cooperation between the two countries should be strengthened and that the Indian government's decision to open an embassy in Ljubljana in the near future would contribute to this.
Singh said that Slovenia as an EU member and the EU president in the first half of 2008 is an important partner for India.
Drnovsek also met Indian Minister of External Affairs Pranab Mukherjee, Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus and the leader of the ruling Congress Party Sonia Gandhi. Drnovsek and Gandhi agreed that the world needs new leaders like Mahatma Gandhi.
The conference, marking the centenary of the establishment of the Satyagraha, a movement set up by Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) to peacefully fight discrimination and injustice, focuses on non-violent ways of conflict resolution and peace-building, Gandhian philosophy for the eradication of poverty, intercultural dialogue and efforts for a world without nuclear weapons.
Some 400 participants, including statesmen, Nobel Prize winners and others, were addressed by Sonia Gandhi and Nobel Peace laureate Mohammad Yunus, among others.
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