To celebrate the spirit of global citizenship and universal peace, over 200 delegates from 33 countries on Friday called on Himachal Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh who also flagged off the peace march, as a part of 11th edition of the Global Youth Peace Festival-GYPF-2016.
Hailing the initiative, the Chief Minister said that it was a great effort in spreading the message of love and fraternity and the youth from over 30 countries were sharing a common platform to spread peace, preach human values and create a more just world.
“It pains to see the people being divided on race, region, religion and nationalities and such programmes, based on common cause to bring peace and harmony, will certainly go ahead disseminating the message as how to live above racial and religious discrimination”, he said.
Bernie Meyer, popularly known as ‘American Gandhi’ presented a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi and his book, ‘Gandhi Universal Inspiration’ to the Chief Minister.
Virbhadra Singh appreciated the efforts of Rajinder Rana, the Vice-Chairman State Disaster Management Authority for getting organized the event and ‘Yuvsatta’- an NGO, with a motto ‘Youth for Peace’, which is continuing its crusade for a humane and peaceful world.
Delegates from Afghanistan, Albania, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brazil, Fiji, France, Indonesia, India, Ireland, Italy, Kenya, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, libya, liberia, Malaysia, Motswana, Mauritius, Nepal, Palestine, Syria, Senegal, Taiwan, Uganda, USA, Zambia & Zimbabwe participated in the peace march which also comprised of 19 members ‘Girl for Peace Delegation’ from Pakistan who had brought Indo-Pak Friendship Cards with them.