PANJE: The fight for liberty and. democracy by Portuguese people brought Portugal and India together Portuguese president Mario Soares said in Panaji capital of Goa in Western India Addressing past and present legislators of Goa in Portuguese in the of the state legislature Soares said “during the years that passed dictatorship which oppressed our people did not allow our ties historic cultural and sentimental which is our common symbolic heritage. Now we are able to overcome the dark shadows of the past and distorted relation imposed by colonialism.
Article extracted from this publication >> February 14, 1992
