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The mayor of Lisbon, Carlos Moedas, said that with the delivery of the city’s honor key, President Murmu becomes a citizen or honorary Lisbon.
President Droupadi Murmu receives the city’s key in honor in Lisbon. (GDP)
“Namaskar! Mrs. President. Apka Lisbon Me Swagat Hai” is how Lisbon Mayor Carlos Moedas welcomed President Droupadi Murmu in a ceremony to deliver the code of honor of the city, making it an honorary citizen of the seven hills.
The president, who is in a two -day state visit to Portugal, received an honor guard at the Municipal of Lisbon de Camara, the historic building where the proclamation of the First Republic of Portugal had tasks of his noble balcony in 1910.
She was tasks of the noble lounge where the ceremony to deliver the key of honor of the city to place with the room full of Indians who had established themselves there.
The courses said that with the delivery of the City of Honor, President Murmu becomes a citizen or honorary lisboas.
Starting his direction with the traditional Portuguese greeting ‘Bom Dia’, the president said that cultural connections between India and Portugal reverberate through centuries and have left an indelible brand in our daily lives. “
She said that “the shared sense of responsibility in international affairs also makes us natural partners in regional and multilateral forums.”
The president said that “Portugal has been a valuable partner of India in promoting our relations with the European Union and Lusophones countries, where Portuguese is an official language.”
“Also in Portugal, you can see the evidence of this strong cultural connection in the wide popularity of Indian art, culture, kitchen, yoga and ayurveda,” he said.
When qualifying the Indian diaspora as the “Brock of or Relias,” Shhe said they are making valuable contributions to the society and economy of Portugal.
Previously in his speech in honor of the president, the mayor recalled the words of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had cited the principle of ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’ (the world is a family) of the duration of ‘Upanishads’ G20.
“This prayer says everything, correct, that we must reject social division, we against them. This is the sectarian form in small minds to see the world, dividing society into different factions and groups.
“I started remembering an old new Indian for social harmony (Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam). This is exactly what we are doing: share a story, cause innovations that have an impact on people’s lives working on social policies that put people first.
“This is the way to avoid sectarianism, which Upanishad warned us. This is the lesson that India still gives us today,” he said.
The mayor said: “We all deposit each other, and we all learn from each other.”
“This is something that we feel very deeply here in Lisbon, and that is why there is so much in common among us. In the first place. Identity, our shared history, India and Portugal, meant not only a revolution in science, in navigation, it was a spiral by our ancient civilization and rich culture, inspired by its principles, its stories and its traditions,” he said.
When qualifying India as a “innovation power,” he said that India is a country made of unicorns companies.
“That today, just for Portuguese friends to know, there are 110 unicorns companies in India. It is the majority and the entire European Union together,” he said.
He said that India is a nation of companies or new companies, with more than 130,000 new companies working together every day in innovation.
“But Lisbon is also an innovation city. We won the Prize of the European Innovation capital in 2023 with a project called Unicorn Factory, an innovation center for new companies, for Scalers,” he said.
“And since we have launched it, our unicorns factory, we have attracted more than 14 unicorns to Lisbon, more than 74 technological companies and create more than 16,000 jobs,” he said.
“I spoke the first innovation, but innovation does not make sense if it is not not that they are not does not live, if not it is not that it does not see does not live in different sectors,” he said, citing the notable Indian businessmen who had established stores there.
The Indian community in Portugal has approximately 1,25,000, including more than 35,000 Indian nationals and 90,000 people of Indian origin with a large number of them with roots in Gujarat and Goa. Portugal has a population of around 10 million.
The community, distributed by Lisbon, Algarve and Porto, has become an integral part of Portugal’s social and economic landscape.
(This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a FEED – PTI syndicated news agency)
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Lisbon, Portugal
