Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday made a veiled reference to the terrorism sponsored from across the border in India and said the proponents of hate are not open to dialogue
This handout photo released by the Sri Lankan Department of Government Information, shows Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi signing the visitors book, as Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena, left, and chief custodian of the Temple of Tooth Nilanga Dela watches during Modi's visit to the temple, believed to house the sacred tooth relic of Buddha, in Kandy, Sri Lanka, Friday, May 12, 2017. Pic/PTI
Colombo: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday made a veiled reference to the terrorism sponsored from across the border in India and said the proponents of hate are not open to dialogue.
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Without taking any names, he said the menace of terrorism "in our region is a concrete manifestation of destructive emotion".
The Prime Minister was addressing the UN-recognised 14th International Vesak Day celebrations to mark the birth, enlightenment and passing away of Lord Buddha.
"Sadly, these ideologies of hate and their proponents in our region are not open to dialogue and hence only open to causing death and destruction," he said in his speech as chief guest at the function to which he was invited by Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena.
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures as he addresses a public rally in the tea-growing town of Norwood some 80kms east of Colombo on May 12, 2017. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared his desire for a "quantum jump" in relations with Sri Lanka, as New Delhi jostles with regional rival Beijing for influence in the island nation. Pic/AFP
Modi said he firmly believed that Buddhism's message of peace was the answer to growing violence all over the world.
He said the biggest challenge to sustainable world peace today was not necessarily from conflict between the nation states but from the mindsets, thought streams, entities and instruments rooted in the idea of hate and violence.
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