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Fight against terrorism is now a universal subject: Vice President

| | Oct 16, 2016, at 03:09 am
New Delhi, Oct 15 (IBNS): Vice President of India M. Hamid Ansari on Saturday said that the question of fight against terrorism is now a universal subject and it will figure in all our discussions at the highest political level.

He was addressing the Media onboard Air India One Special Aircraft on his way to a five-day visit to Hungary and Algeria.

The Minister of State for Surface Transport and Petroleum and Chemicals, Mansukhlal Mandavia was also present on the occasion.

The Vice President has said that our relations with Hungary are very old and the scholars from both countries have done much work on cultural traditions of India and Hungary.

He further said that some of the work of Hungarian Indologists can be seen in the Library of Asiatic Society in Kolkata.

Our cultural relations with Hungary are thus very well embedded, he pointed out,he said.

He further mentioned that the Indian Embassy had played a distinctive role at the time of the 1956 Revolution in Hungary and the same was acknowledged by the Hungarian side including their President during his visit to India.

He said he would also visit a place outside Budapest which has memories of a visit by Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore.

Referring to the somewhat limited bilateral exchanges at senior level, the Vice President said that the purpose of this visit is to fill this gap.

He further said that Hungary is a member of European Union and it is coming up as a good place where Indian business can operate in Europe as a whole.

There are a number of high profile Indian Companies operating from Budapest and Hungary has a certain technologies in which we would be interested in like IT, Defence etc., he added.
 

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