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PM hopes for peace

NEW DELHI MARCH 18. The countdown for a U.S.-led war against Iraq may have begun, but the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, on Tuesday exuded confidence that peace would still reign supreme and the "demon of violence" would be consigned to the flames. "We still hope peace will reign supreme and the menace of violence will be burnt away," Mr. Vajpayee said a few hours after the U.S. President, George W. Bush's ultimatum to Iraq's President, Saddam Hussein, to go into exile within 48 hours or face military action.

Speaking after the Gandhi Peace Prize function in the Rashtrapati Bhavan, the Prime Minister said that while a peace prize was being awarded here, elsewhere in the world ultimatums were being issued and people were being thrown out of their country. He, however, expressed the hope that peace would reign supreme and "hinsa ki holika ka dahan hoga (the demon of violence will be burnt)". — UNI

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