Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the Summit for Democracy, via video conferencing, in New Delhi, on March 29, 2023. The Prime Minister had earlier referred to India as the “mother of democracy” in his speech at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in September 2021, countering the generally held perception that the Athenian city-state, founded in Greece in the 6th century BCE, which gave the terms ‘Demos’ and ‘Kratos’ to mean people’s rule, preceded it. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the need for a “Just and Lasting Peace in Ukraine”