12 minutes agoToday the Peace Forum starts works in Paris, there Kurti and Osmani
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)The Paris Peace Forum, which will gather leaders of many countries and international organisations, will begin the works today. The fifth edition of this Forum, entitled “From the Multiple Crisis”, is dedicated to today's greatest challenges, including worsening climate change, the waves of the coronary pandemic, deepening [...]
The fifth edition of this forum, entitled “From the Multiple Crisis”, is dedicated to today's biggest challenges, including worsening climate change, the waves of the coronary pandemic, deepening inequality and geopolitical conflicts with global consequences.
The focus of the two-day meeting in Paris will be on preventing the world's destructive polarisation, which would threaten collective efforts to meet many important challenges for mankind.
Among the heads of state, France's President Emmanuel Macron and the presidents of Argentina and Colombia, Alberto Fernandez and Gustavo Petro, will speak in Forum. The wife of the king of Jordan, Rania Al-Abdullah, will also speak.
Among the speakers are representatives of many international organisations and financial institutions, including the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, Secretary General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Mathias Cormann and World Food Programme Executive Director (WFP), David Beasley.
Among other things, the governor of the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB), Carlo Monticelli and the International Labour Organisation General Directors and U NESCO, Gilbert Houngbo and Audrey Azoulay.
President Vjosa Osmani and Prime Minister Albin Kurti, who met with French President Emmanuel Macron, are also attending the Paris Peace Forum.
Also, the forum's participants are Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama.
The Paris Peace Forum was launched by Macron in 2018 in the centennial of the end of World War I, with the aim of promoting multilatheralism.
