Viewpoint by Gaitri Issar Kumar
The following are extended excerpts from India's Ambassador to the European Union in Brussels, Gaitri Issar Kumar's keynote address on the 44th anniversary of the African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) Group of States. It was celebrated at the ACP House on June 7 in Brussels, which ACP Secretary-General Dr Patrick I Gomes described "the end of an era", with the ACP finding itself in the midst of reviewing many institutions that have shaped and marked it in the previous years.
BRUSSELS (IDN) – With Africa, our relations have been founded on a deep political affinity and solidarity- nurtured over the decades. We have shared a very painful – but eventually successful- common struggle for freedom from foreign rule.
It was in South Africa that Mahatma Gandhi, the father of our nation conceived the principles of Satyagraha-the nonviolent resistance that he led against colonial rule, racial discrimination and oppression. Continue reading
