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President Khatami: World in dire need of dialogue
Tehran, Jan 28, IRNA -- President Mohammad Khatami has said here that
the world is in dire need of dialogue and justice. He said
negotiations must be held at national and international levels
on the definition of justice and ways of its administration.
According to a report released by the Press and News Department
of the presidential office on Monday, President Khatami in an
address to the first meeting of Arab-Iranian Friendship Association
stressed the need for identification and removal of obstacles to
dialogue between Muslim nations and the outside world.
President Khatami expressed hope that the meeting will serve to
facilitate dialogue among Muslim communities.
Muslim scholars and experts must identify the common points
shared by Muslim Ummah for the sake of dialogue, said President
Khatami, adding that the world of Islam should stress spirituality,
ethics and justice and strive for protecting the rights of people as
recommended by Islam.
The President said freedom is the most important right of human
beings and any link between people's rights and justice should
prepare the ground for a consensus on the meaning of a civil
society.
Elsewhere in his remarks, the President said the worst examples
of human rights violations and injustice are seen in the occupied
Palestine, where the worst form of terrorism is carried out by
the usurper Zionist regime.
"I believe protecting the rights and aspirations of Palestine
is defense of the rights of human beings, justice and global peace
and an opposition to war, suppression, violence and terror,"
said President Khatami.
He said the issue of Palestine is the best issue on which the
all scholars and experts from the world of Islam can hold talks and
and reach a consensus.
He said the warm welcome accorded worldwide to the idea of
dialogue among civilizations indicates that such a dialogue the need
of the hour in today's world.
"We, as initiators of the idea, had better start dialogue before
anyone else does it in order to solve our problems," announced
the President.
Some 70 Arab scientific and cultural figures as well as
ambassadors of Arab countries to Tehran and a group of Iranian
scholars attended the gathering.
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