MALTA: The Global Council for Tolerence and Peace (GCTP) will be holding its first founding session of the International Parliament for Tolerance and Peace on July 6, 2018 in Valetta, Malta.
The session will be honoured with the participation of the Speaker of the Maltese Parliament, Angelo Farrugio, President GCTP Ahmed Bin Mohammed Al-Jarwan and numerous national parliamentary representatives from all around the world.
Offices have been established all around the world in preparation of the founding session.
The session is of great importance as it lays the foundation stone in building of new global parliamentary entity that will collectively curb terrorism, extremism, racism, violence and hatred through a global strategy.
The global strategy would plant a culture of awareness, acceptance, tolerance, dialogue, moderation, forgiveness and peace.
According to a statement issued by the council’s presidency, “IPTP represents on of the most important main units of the GCTP, and is considered one of the specialized global parliaments, given that the council aims towards adding parliamentary representatives from different countries in the world to its members.”
The statement added “global parliament specializes in studying and looking into the international matters related to spreading tolerance, in order to raise peace values worldwide.”
The main idea of the global parliament composed of various national parliamentary representatives will give a unique chance of coordination, cooperation and exchange of ideas and expertise as well as work on sharing common beliefs that may help in national and international matters of concern like terrorism, ethnic and racial radicalism.
The importance of this organ of GCTP is significant as it will no longer limit the national parliamentary members to limit their voice to the national level or just within their electoral circles. The voices will be made and heard international while respecting national sovereignty, privacy and independence of each state.