Speeches
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A. Flores-Araoz: Address to Latin America Summit 2018
- Thursday, August 2, 2018
Nowadays, Latin American governments make huge purchases of war material while at the same time there are portions of the population living in extreme poverty. … This leads us to the big question: Why is that? Why do Latin American countries continue to invest considerable amounts of money in weapons when there’s so many diverse and much more important problems like lack of basic services such as electricity, clean water, roads or medical care, that governments should be more concerned about?
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Freedom of Faith a ‘Litmus Test’ for All Human Rights
- Saturday, April 28, 2018
Freedom of religion or belief is an essential human right and an expression of the deepest personal freedom—freedom of conscience.
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Y.K. Tong: Address to International Leadership Conference 2018
- Wednesday, February 21, 2018
I firmly believe that the Confucian principles of benevolence, faithfulness, compassion and harmony can be fundamental to building a harmonious world.
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B. Kalita: Address to International Leadership Conference 2018
- Wednesday, February 21, 2018
People all over the world look forward to peaceful solutions to all their problems, and I reiterate that parliamentarians the world over have a major role to play, as they cannot disappoint the people and they have to rise to the occasion.
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S. Redo: Address to the International Leadership Conference 2018
- Tuesday, February 20, 2018
This conference has clearly demonstrated its relevance to the major objective of the United Nations as stated in its Charter, namely to save succeeding generations from the scourge of wars.
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L. Walsh: Address to International Leadership Conference 2018
- Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Our Creator knows the purpose of sex, marriage, family and the principles that we need to follow create true love. All religions see marriage as having a divine purpose.
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G. Iskandar: Address to International Leadership Conference 2018
- Tuesday, February 20, 2018
The political repressions, authoritarian rulers, and the absence of democratic governments in the Arab world over the past six decades, contributed directly to the demise of these countries and over the past seven years, the spread of illiteracy, the schism among ethnic, sectarian and even political groups and thus resulted in political intolerances, religious persecutions, unemployment, poverty and a miserable way of life.
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M.A. Al Shami: Address to the International Leadership Conference 2018
- Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Peace is the wider door of a dignified life. As you know, every door has a key, and the key to the door of peace is love.
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L. Thaveetermsakul: Address to International Leadership Conference 2018
- Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Without solving fundamental sociocultural and human development issues we will not be able to realize and sustain peace and security in Asia or anywhere in the world.
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V. Jolly: Address to International Leadership Conference 2018
- Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Peace should be brokered. Talks, walks, dialogue, understanding and friendship should be encouraged.
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V. Petrovskiy: Address to International Leadership Conference 2018
- Tuesday, February 20, 2018
The 70-year experience of inter-Korean relations teaches that normalization of the situation on the Korean Peninsula is possible only on the basis of a stable and irreversible dialogue between the North and theSouth of Korea.
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I. Onyshchuk: Address to International Leadership Conference 2018
- Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Openness to the dialogue between religions and cultures and their awareness of the urgent need to combine efforts for justice, brotherhood, peace and development of the human person is a real sign of hope.