Prince Turki Al-Faisal Addresses High Panel Meeting on Peace and Dialogue Among Cultures

The High Panel on Peace and Dialogue Among Cultures held a meeting at the United Nations headquarters in New York last night under the chairmanship of UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova, and with the participation of the members of the Panel.
The meeting was attended by Prince Turki Al-Faisal, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies; Dr. Abdulaziz Othman Al-Tuwaijri, Director General of Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO); and Dr. Ziad Al-Drees, Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to UNESCO.
Addressing the panel, Prince Turki Al-Faisal reviewed the leading roles played by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah Ibn Abdulaziz Al Saud in his initiative for calls for dialogue between cultures and followers of religions.
Prince Turki Al-Faisal pointed to the phases of the initiative since Makkah Conference, Madrid Conference, and the Summit held with the participation of 65 heads of State at the UN headquarters in New York. The Prince asserted the importance of focusing on promoting the values ??of education, culture, science and interest in the roles of youth and women in societies, also stressing the importance of disseminating cultures of peace, tolerance, and renunciation of violence as means to avoid conflict and to combat racism, extremism and terrorism.
At the end of the meeting, an open symposium was held in the presence of the Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon and a large number of prominent personalities in intellectual and cultural fields, during which they discussed the goals of dialogue among civilizations and cultures and the means leading to the activation of the dialogue in a broad spectrum.