Sahara India Parivar and Government of the Republic of Macedonia organised the first ever ‘Sahara Balkan Peace Festival’ in Skopje, Macedonia, the land of Mother Teresa.
The two day festival was organised on 2nd October the International Day of Non Violence celebrated to mark the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The event aimed at bringing Balkan countries on one platform to pledge for world peace and will be organised every year in one of the Balkan countries on rotation basis.
The first ‘Sahara Balkan Peace Festival’ witnessed the gracious presence of Former Prime Minister of the UK, Tony Blair along with His Excellency the President, Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, President of Assembly and the entire cabinet of Republic of Macedonia, lords and Baroness of England, along with diplomatic representation of World Bank, IFC as well as 8 countries including USA, UK, European Union, France, Qatar and Balkan countries like Croatia, Turkey Serbia.
In the summit Nikola Gruevski, Prime Minister of Republic of Macedonia, said, “We live in times when peace is interrupted in many parts of the world. Even today many societies are facing times of crises, crises of ethics, cultural descents and contorted values that produce violence that every normal person is horrified. But, that shouldn’t hesitate us. That doesn’t mean that we should give up or hold up.”
While speaking in Summit ‘Saharasri’, Subrata Roy Sahara, Managing Worker & Chairman, Sahara India Pariwar, said, “For our external personality, that is, our body, food and water keeps it energetic, active and healthy, but for our internal personality that is the spiritual personality, that is for our mental body, the food is peace and happiness for giving us best quality mental health with lots of strong will power and positive energy always seen as active optimism.