Skopje, July 21 -- President Droupadi Murmu said that India's ancient civilisational philosophy 'Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam'' calls for "building bridges, not walls", when the global landscape is "fractured" by conflict and economic division, a she addressed the members of the Assembly of North Macedonia at Skopje on Tuesday in the presence of the President of North Macedonia, HEGordana Siljanovska-Davkova, Ministry of External Affairs said in an official statement.

Speaking on the occasion, the President said that "we in India regard the Republic of North Macedonia not as a distant country but as an important pillar in the architecture of a stable, multipolar, and prosperous global future."

"Our relationship was set in motion more than two ...