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저작물명: 제13차 한-인도 대화 오찬사(영문)

저작(권)자: 저작자 미상 (저작물 2267374 건)

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요약정보: President Jung Ku-hyun‚
Minister Yashwant Sinha‚
Dr. Ahn Choong-yong‚
Dr. Rajat Kathuria‚
Ambassador Vishnu Prakash‚
Distinguished Guests‚
Ladies and Gentlemen‚
Allow me first to congratulate you for holding the 13th Korea-India Dialogue. I wish to thank the Seoul Forum for International Affairs for inviting me to this wonderful occasion‚ and for giving me this opportunity to share with you some of my thoughts on the present and the future of the Korea-India relations.
The Korea-India Dialogue‚ launched in 1996‚ has offered intellectual input to our common efforts to deepen and broaden our bilateral relations through extensive discussions not only on the issues on our bilateral agenda‚ but also on the global issues such as the post-Cold War international order‚ impact of globalization‚ and emergence of BRICS and G20.
Today’s meeting is taking place at a time when a dramatic transition is transpiring in the political landscape in Asia‚ while new leaders took office in both Korea and India not long time ago. Against this backdrop‚ the theme of today’s meeting ‘Toward a Renewed Relationship: New Opportunities and Challenges’ is timely and relevant. I hope and expect that we will greatly benefit from your wisdom and insight and draw many policy implications from your rich discussions today.
Distinguished Guests‚
On September 28th of this year‚ Prime Minister Modi delivered a speech at the Madison Square Garden in New York that began with “Bharat Mata Ki Jai”‚ which means the discovery of India.
In his book titled ‘The Discovery of India’ which was published in 1947‚ prior to India’s independence‚ Jawaharlal Nehru wanted to introduce India to the entire world‚ a country that takes pride in its 5‚000-year-old history and glorious civilization. And 67 years later‚ what did Prime Minister Modi discover about India? What message was he trying to convey?
It was about India’s immense potential. A young and vibrant India with an ancient history; a major power enjoying the 3Ds -- democracy‚ demography and demand; an IT powerhouse that influences the world with the click of a mouse‚ not a country with snake charmers; and a leading country in science that launched the spacecraft Mangalyaan to Mars. This is the new India that Prime Minister Modi discovered and‚ based on this discovery‚ he wanted to talk about India’s potential‚ untapped and infinite.
It is not a new discovery that India is a country with extraordinary capacity and potential. In the 11th century‚ Spanish philosopher Al-Andalusi described India as “the first nation to have cultivated science”‚ and the Indians to be of “sublime pensiveness‚ universal apologue and useful and rare inventions”.
We have a hunch that the age-old talent of the Indian people will be in full bloom under Prime Minister Modi’s leadership because‚ since his days as Chief Minister of Gujarat‚ Prime Minister Modi was already known to be a leader with a proven track record in reform. Even before being elected‚ he offered in his campaign pledges solutions to the constraints in modernizing India. Having diagnosed that the wave of liberalization in India of the 1990s failed to transform the country due to the lack of openness in the government and the unpreparedness of the people to ride the wave‚ he embarked on dramatic reforms after assuming office.
He met directly with the working level officials‚ rather than members of the Cabinet‚ to explain his administration’s governing philosophy and succeeded in moving their hearts. He put an end to the unnecessary auditing of companies. He encouraged 75 million Indian households to open up bank accounts‚ and 700 million US dollars have been deposited to date. And thanks to the introduction of the digital national registration sys