| JAKARTA (via
PLDT)—President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has called for broader inter-faith dialogues
to engender peace and understanding between and among Asian and African countries.
The President made the call in her speech Friday
afternoon before the Asian-African Leaders’ Summit plenary session on the "New
Asian-African Strategic Partnership."
The Chief Executive arrived here Thursday
afternoon for the April 21-23 Summit and the Golden Jubilee rites for the 1955 Bandung
Conference which produced the historic Bandung Declaration.
The late Foreign Affairs Secretary Carlos P.
Romulo, uncle of the incumbent Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto Romulo, was one of the
original 29 Asian and African signatories to the Bandung Declaration that helped give
birth to the Non-Aligned Movement and the Group of 77.
In her speech before the summit, President Arroyo
noted that Asia and Africa are both cradles of civilization and "our peoples have
much to learn from each other country’s glorious past."(full story) |
