Statements to Media by Prime Minister of India, and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
May 29, 2012
Prime Minister of India (Dr. Manmohan Singh):
Ladies and gentlemen, it has been a great honour and great privilege
for me to have had this opportunity of interacting and meeting with Daw
Aung San Suu Kyi. We in India are very proud of our longstanding
association with her and members of her family including her parents.
I
sincerely hope that she will find it possible to visit India soon. In
this context I have handed over to her the invitation letter to deliver
the next Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Lecture which is a very prestigious
lecture. Mrs. Sonia Gandhi has written an invitation letter to Madam to
do us the honour to deliver this lecture in India.
Madam Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s life, her struggle, and her determination
have inspired millions of people all over the world. Our sincere belief
is that in the Process of National Reconciliation which has been
launched by President Thein Sein, Madam Suu Kyi will play a defining
role.
I conveyed to her our very best wishes for the success of the noble endeavour in which she and her colleagues are engaged.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi:
It has been a great pleasure and a privilege to meet Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh, and I very much appreciate the fact that he has made
time to see me here in Rangoon in spite of a very heavy programme.
As
you all know, India and Burma have been particularly close over the
years not just because of our geographical positions but because we have
shared deep ties of friendship for many many long years.
The
struggle for India’s independence took place at the same time as the
struggle for Burma’s independence. My parents were great admirers of
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and other Indian leaders, but we were
particularly close to Panditji as I was taught to call him from a very
young age.
I am very happy at the prospect of closer ties with
India because I think we have much to learn from one another and we have
much to contribute to peace and stability in this region, because our
goals, our democratic goals, work on the basis of peace and stability,
and these are what we shall aim towards.
I am very gratified by
the invitation to deliver the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Lecture, and I
hope that I will be able to take up this invitation before too long.
More
than that, I hope that there will be greater exchanges between our two
peoples. As I said to the Prime Minister, true friendship between the
countries can be based only on friendship between our peoples, and this
is what I hope we will be able to achieve.
Thank you.
Yangoon
May 29, 2012
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