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Today’s global challenges aggravated by intolerance (2007-09-26) |
Promoting tolerance is a vital part of tackling many of today's global challenges, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told representatives comprising the “Group of Friends” of the global campaign known as the Alliance of Civilizations.
Promoting tolerance is a vital part of tackling many of today's global challenges which, though mostly political in nature, are aggravated and rendered intractable by the distrust, and even hostility, among different cultural and religious groups, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told a high-level gathering on bridging the divide between Islam and the West.
“Across the world, intolerance and cross-cultural tensions are on the rise,” Mr. Ban stated in his remarks to representatives comprising the “Group of Friends” of the global campaign known as the Alliance of Civilizations.
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