08/01/1977
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"The world looks to us for the maintenance of peace and for mutual progress and for the solution of some of the economic and social ills that afflict the world."
"I think the reason for this is that my family has grown to respect and to love India in the last 10 years."
"I am an important representative here in India, one of our closest and most valued friends in the largest democracy on Earth."
"Today was fulfilled in my life a long ambition to visit the memorial to Mahatma Gandhi."