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Strasbourg, France, Apr 25 (UNI) Lauding the European Union experiment, President A P J Abdul Kalam today called upon its members to consider India a partner in the effort to achieve the highest level of global cooperation and peace built on the foundation of regional cooperation and core competence of nations.

Pointing out to the extremists' violence faced by India and the countries of the Union, he said the root cause of such a violence had to be addressed.

Giving the first ever address by an Indian head of the state to the European Parliament, representing 500 million people of the world, here, Dr Kalam said, ''The world over poverty, illiteracy, unemployment and deprivation are driving forward forces of anger and violence. These forces link themselves to some earlier real or perceived historical enmities, injustices, inequities and religious fundamentalism,'' he said.

''Both India and the European Union have witnessed and are witnessing the unsavoury acts of certain misguided sections of society. We have to jointly address ourselves to the root cause of such phenamena for finding lasting solutions for promoting peace,'' he said.

He said India and the European Union, which brought together 27 countries, both supported a social forum of economic growth and encouraged a model of growth with equity and were conscious of a need to respect environment and make it sustainable for future generations.

Dr Kalam put forward to the European countries a blueprint for three important Indo-European missions aimed at achieving global peace and properity.

One was for evolving a citizen with a value system, the second was a three dimensional approach for energy choice towards realising a clean planet earth and the third was for synergising the core competence of the European Union and India in certain areas for providing solutions to critical issues like water, healthcare and capacity building.

UNI