Presented by Dr. Alejandro Roemmers,
Ambassador for a Culture of Peace OMPP WOFP
We wish to thank Eng. Carlos Tello, Secretary General of the Presidency of OMPP WOFP and Controller for Mexico and the Caribbean countries, for his call for an immediate ceasefire in all conflicts. Likewise, the Ambassador for a Culture of Peace and General Director of the World Interfaith Council, Dr. Alejandro Roemmers, who has proposed a worldwide embrace for Peace and has already set in motion this programme that we support – that sound and wise Franciscan concept, open to the world, in which we are all brothers and sisters.
To embrace those we love. To embrace those we do not know. To embrace those who are different. To embrace those who think differently. To embrace those who were adversaries. To embrace those from other nations, of other ethnicities, cultures, beliefs and religions, those who live a situation very different from our own.
Because every embrace recalls a truth we should never forget:
The other is also you.
Perhaps millions of embraces will not by themselves solve the world's problems, but they can change our hearts. And when hearts change, history begins to change!
We also thank the Secretary General for India, Nisha Kothari de Prakash, for her programme of support to convene the foremost Religions of India in October (Hindus, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Sikhs and Jains) for the worldwide embrace of Peace, supporting Ambassador Alejandro Roemmers with the worldwide embrace for Peace. In the same way, Dimitri Mokin, Secretary General of OMPP WOFP for the Russian Federation, for his support of the Interreligious meeting for World Peace, following Roemmers' proposal; and the Secretary General for Serbia, Dr. Baroness Snjezana Rajacic, of the World Organization for Peace, who will convene the different religions for the fraternal embrace in Belgrade, Serbia, for 4 October in Assisi. Likewise Dr. Eng. Giampiero Lembo, Secretary General for Italy, for his work convening leaders of different religions in Italy to unite them in the October embrace called for a world at Peace, in the worldwide embrace.
Our congratulations to Dr. Carlos Alberto Ferreyra, Roving and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of OMPP WOFP, for the event planned in the Prince Philip hall, convening the Catholic Christian, Evangelical and Orthodox religions, the Jewish and Muslim religions, Druze, Hindus and Buddhists, together with other official faiths, for the fraternal embrace for World Peace. We add our thanks to Dr. Professor for Peace Muhammad Abdul Aziz Ahmed Al Baker, Secretary General of OMPP WOFP World Organization for Peace for the Middle East, for convening all religions in the Persian Gulf for that worldwide embrace for Peace. To the Honourable Guillermo Pablo Mourelle, Ambassador for Argentina and Deputy Secretary General, Senior Adviser on Crisis and Reconstruction Programmes of OMPP WOFP, for the Ecumenical and Interreligious meeting scheduled in Argentina in September at the Club Español, following the embrace for World Peace; who, together with Pablo Francisco Romano, Ambassador for Argentina of OMPP WOFP and Adviser on Institutional Affairs, jointly convene the Interreligious Embrace for World Peace, with coordination support from Rubén Grimaldi, Chief of Staff of the Presidency of OMPP WOFP. To the Secretary General for Eastern Europe of OMPP WOFP, Av. Osmo Vatres, who is also President of the Balkan Club of Peace, for convening the Interreligious meeting in Sarajevo and various Balkan countries.
Dr. Prof. Mehrdad Fojlaley, Secretary General in Turkey of OMPP WOFP, has joined, together with the Secretary General for Belgium, Dr. Gholam Reza Malek Mohammadi. We likewise thank the coordinators in the United States of America: Suzette Tirado, General Secretariat for the United States, Washington DC Headquarters and Los Angeles, California Sub-Headquarters; and Ambassador Dr. Eduardo Pérez Guerrero, Ambassador of OMPP WOFP for the USA, Miami headquarters. To our colleagues of the General Secretariats of Bolivia, Luis Orta; Israel, Cesar Volko; Egypt, Amed Galala; Pakistan, Danish Kaneria; for Nepal, Secretary General Shanta Kumar Sbrestba; for Japan, Masamuchi Shinoda; for Switzerland, Morgan Chandana Delachaux; for South Korea, Yong Jin Wi; for Paraguay, Miguel Angel Maldonado; in Sudan, Sultan Ahmed Dinar; for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mladen Karic; for Cameroon, Dr. Fabrice Funiba; for the Union of African Countries, Abdalbasit Ibrahim Adam Abdalla. To the Director of the Board of the World Organization for Peace, Leonel Riviello, and to Mr. Ricardo Trigo, in charge of liaison.
All in the 185 Nations will be under the General Coordination of this Embrace for World Peace around the world by Dr. Alejandro Roemmers. In the same way, to the Secretaries General in the remaining of the 185 nations who are inviting the various Ministers of Religions and official Faiths to the Fraternal Embrace, which will conclude in Assisi, Italy, on 4 October of this year, for a world at Peace and a better future.