5th World Forum on Intercultural Dialogue launched today in Baku. Director general of ISESCO Abdulaziz Othman Altwaijri touched upon the disorder in the world during the forum.
He focuses on the main challenges to peace in the world. He alarms that world challenged by hatred.
"The first responsibilities lie on the world intellectuals. It is needed to make a connection between different languages, cultures, religions. The beautiful connection of the ideas makes the world different," Altwaijri said.
The general director of ISESCO worries about the increase of fear, xenophobia, growth of poverty which undermines the peaceful world.
On the other hand, he thinks that superpowers fight and blames each other which these actions deconstruct international peace.
"We have to respect diversity religions, races, we have to accept them with respect," the general director of ISESCO called the world into tolerance.
He emphasizes that people suffers from things which they are not responsible for this. "Religions promotes peace and mercy, no religion promotes aggression". Sometimes, terrorism is linked with religion, Altwaijri notes that terrorism has no religion.
He underlined the importance of world leaders to demonstrate political will in this period and emphasized President Ilham Aliyev's exemplary position in this regard. Abdulaziz Othman Altwaijri also expresses support to border integrity of Azerbaijan and hope the return of land to its legal owners.