Indians in Belgium celebrate Republic Day
January 26th, 2010 - 10:36 pm ICT by IANS
Brussels, Jan 26 (IANS) Indian community in Belgium Tuesday celebrated the 61st Republic Day here.
Expatriates from India braved the cold weather to gather at the Inidan embassy to witness the flag hoisting and singing of their national anthem, EuAsiaNews reported.
“As 2009 came to a close, there have been many analyses about what are the possible prospects of the next decade for India. Some refer to it as the deciding decade, the decade of reckoning,” said India’s ambassador to Brussels Jaimini Bhagwati reading out the speech of President Pratibha Patil.
“I fully agree that it will be so. It must, therefore, mean a decade in which all Indians must do their work with a sense of responsibility, discipline, integrity of mind and purpose as well as with a spirit of cooperation,” she read.
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