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His Holiness Swamiji started His four-day visit to Croatia with meeting Croatian President Stjepan Mesic in his office on Thursday, April 19. President Mesic accepted Swamiji's invitation to participate in the 6th World Peace Summit organised in Slovakia by the ”Sri Swami Madhavananda World Peace Council“. In light of discussions about activities in the sphere of world peace and multiculturalism, the 100th anniversary of the Satya Graha movement of Mahatma Gandhi was especially focused on during the meeting between the President and Peace Ambassador. The Croatian President asked about progress of the school in Jadan and construction of the Om Ashram and has promised to pay a return visit to Jadan Ashram during his next stay in India, in 2009.

His Holiness Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda was invited by the United Nations in New York City to present His message of Spiritual Awakening for World Peace.

On the evening of April 25th together with Mr. Ramu Damodaran, Chief, Civil Society Services, UN Department of Public Information, Bawa Jain, Secretary General, World Council of Religious Leaders of The Millennium World Peace Summit and Tsu-Wei Chang, Chief, Coordination, Division for the Advancement of Women, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Swamiji gave a talk and meditation at the UN headquarters.

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On May 22, 2006 His Holiness Mahamandaleshwar Paramhans Swami Maheshwaranandaji met with the President of India, His Excellency Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam in the President's office in New Delhi.

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On February 25, 2005, His Holiness Mahamandaleshwar Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda met the President of the Republic of Slovenia, Dr. Janez Drnovsek, in Slovenia's capital Ljubljana. They spoke for more than one hour and exchanged views and discussed matters of World Peace, Ecology and mutual understanding between Religions and Cultures. They both expressed the need for Multi-Cultural and Multi-Religious tolerance and understanding in the world.

On February 17, the first day of his six-day official visit to India, President of Austria Heinz Fischer and his wife Margit met with His Holiness Mahamandaleshwar Sri Swami Maheshwarananda. His Holiness Swamiji was invited to the welcoming banquet for President Fischer and his delegation at the Embassy of Austria in New Delhi. Heinz Fischer is the first-ever head of Austria to visit India.