Gandhi's example has proven most durable, enduring: UNGA President

The legacy of Mahatma Gandhi has proven the "most durable and enduring", UN General Assembly President Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garces has said as she voiced her commitment to peace and security and representing Gandhi's ideals in the current session of the 193-member world body.

Speaking at an event titled 'Non-violence in Action' here, Garces said she was committed to bringing the United Nations closer to the people that the world body is here to serve, to leave no one behind and to beyond a narrow focus or definition of national interest.

"Today we come together to commemorate 150 years since the birth of Mahatma Gandhi, an individual whose name and image evoke the very concepts of peace, restraint and passivity, even in the face of violence and extremism," she said at the event organised by the Permanent Mission of India to the UN on the occasion of the International Day of Non-Violence.

Garces said from Martin Luther King to Nelson Mandela, the "leading lights" of recent modern ...