Singapore:
PM Narendra Modi delivered the 37th Singapore Lecture on 'India's Singapore Story'.
Here are highlights of his speech:- I am deeply honoured to be here.
- The destinies of the two nations (India and Singapore) are deeply linked.
- I extend the greetings of 1.25 billion friends and admirers to the people of Singapore on 50 years of Independence.
- I would like to take this opportunity to pay homage to one of the tallest leaders of our times, the architect of modern Singapore - Lee Kuan Yew.
- To me he (Lee Kuan Yew) was a personal inspiration.
- Singapore teaches us many things.
- The size of the nation is no barrier to the scale of its achievements.
- The lack of resources is no constraint on the power of imagination.
- Singapore has done more than just lift a nation into the highest levels of prosperity within a generation.
- It has inspired this region's progress and led in its integration.
- India and Singapore have been together at many crossroads of time.
- As India opened itself, Singapore became India's springboard to the World and gateway to the East.
- We need a partnership that addresses the challenges of 21st century from clean water to sustainable habitats.
- This area covers the arc of Asia-Pacific and Indian ocean.
- Asia's reemergence is the greatest phenomenon of the era.
Japan led Asia's rise from Korea to China. - India is the bright hope for sustaining Asian dynamism. But it is also a region of unresolved disputes.
- Asia is still finding a path through its multiple transitions to a peaceful, stable and prosperous future.
- It is a journey that must succeed.
- Singapore and India must work together to realise it.
- In Singapore, where the region's currents merge; its diversity converges; I feel that we are closer to that vision than ever before.