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and peace among people of faith and among
nations.

Afterwards, H.E. Mr. Patrick Simonnet,
Ambassador and Head of the Delegation of
the European Union to the Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia and the Gulf, recalled to the public the
reflection elaborated in the book by H.E. Mr.
Josep Borrell Fontelles, High Representative of
the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.
Ambassador Mr. Simonnet also outlined that
the EU remains one of the largest contributors
to the UN and will continue working side by
side with UN diplomats, funds, agencies and
programmes to always push solutions through
dialogue and negotiation. The EU considers
that the world needs to be governed by agreed
rules and norms such as those embodies by
the UN and that global challenges call for
multilateral approaches, now more than ever.

In light of the Ambassador Mr. Patrick short news about this achievement in their
Simonnet’s reflection, the moderator later social media, namely: EU Delegation to
outlined that the EU is fundamentally a peace the Gulf Cooperation Council, Ministry of
project built on the ashes of the Second World Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica and United Arab
War. Thanks to its success, he said that EU has Emirates, Embassy of Spain to Saudi Arabia,
benefited from what is probably the longest UPEACE or Paz sin Fronteras.
period of peace and unprecedented prosperity
amongst the states who are now its members, The book was possible thanks to the
to the point where war amongst them has contribution from the UNESCO Chairs on
become difficult to even imagine. peace of the Abat Oliba CEU University
and Banaras Hindu University, Haceppette
The event was closed by H.E. Dr. Mohammed University, Caritas in Veritate Foundation, Paz
Bin Abdulkarim Al-Issa, Secretary General of sin Fronteras, Sovereign Order of Malta, King
the Muslim World League, who underlined Abdullah bin Abdulaziz International Centre
the importance of tolerance, mutual respect for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue,
and peace among all different religions and World Jewish Congress, the Permanent
cultures. He outlined his commitment to Delegations of the United Arab Emirates
counter all kind of violent extremism and hate and Holy See to the United Office in Geneva,
speech. He stressed that Mr. Mohamed Levrak, Embassy of Spain in Saudi Arabia, Ministry of
Special Adviser for H.E. Al-Issa and Deputy Foreign Affairs and Worship of Costa Rica, and
Representative of the Muslim World League in Vice-presidency of the European Commission/
Geneva had contributed to the coordination High Representative of the European Union
of the book on behalf of the WML. for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. •

The launching was extensively reported in
relevant outlets, Press Agencies and media
channels within the Gulf States and Middle
East region, such as Vatican News, Alkhaleej
Today, Elkhabar, Arab News and WAM
Emirates Press. Other governmental and
non-governmental agencies prepared some

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