03-11-2007, 12:56 AM
Joint history manual between India, Pak.
Islamabad, March 11 (PTI): A joint manual, chronicling their history of wars and cultural traditions, would help India and Pakistan improve bilateral relations, German Ambassador to Pakistan Guntar Mulack on Saturday said.
Addressing the launch ceremony of the first ever 'Franco- German history manual' at the Alliance Francaise here, Mulack said Germany and France had different cultures, languages and traditions with a history of wars, and yet they managed to make a joint history manual.
"With similar cultures, Pakistan and India can easily follow their example, as human relations remain strong despite wars," the APP news agency quoted him as saying.
This helped both Germany and France to display reconciliation and friendship, he said.
French Ambassador Regis de Belenet said, such a book has helped promote relations between France and Germany and can prove helpful also for the leaders of Pakistan and India.
A film 'Merry Christmas-Joyeux Noel' was also shown to senior officials and diplomats on the occasion.
The manual was produced in 2006, with the first out of the three parts dealing with Europe and the world since 1945, the second dealing with the period from ancient history up till the Romantic Era and the third from the 19th century to 1945.
The manual is the first of its kind to be used in two different countries and will also serve as the standard history book in the last years of schools in France and Germany.
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