The 12th World Hindi Conference organised by the MEA in cooperation with the Fiji government will be held in Nadi in the South Pacific country from February 15-17, Ministry of External Affairs Secretary (East), Saurabh Kumar said during a special media briefing.

A 270 member delegation from India will visit Fiji for the event and representatives from 50 countries are expected to participate in it.
Fiji is an archipelago of more than 300 islands in the South Pacific.

The event will be inaugurated on February 15 by the External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Fiji's Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka, the Secretary said
Union Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan and Minister of State in Ministry of Home Affairs Ajay Kumar Mishra will also be present during the event.

The decision to hold the event in Fiji was taken during the World Hindi Conference in Mauritius last year, according to Kumar.
"The Prime Minister always uses Hindi and has given various speeches in the language in India as well as abroad. This has increased the language's value and more people have been motivated to use it," the MEA Secretary said.

"The theme for the event is 'Hindi - Traditional Knowledge to Artificial Intelligence' where on one side we are respecting our traditional knowledge and on the other side, showing that Hindi has been successful in walking along with the technological advancements," Kumar said.

 

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