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The Mediterranean world has to some extent been forgotten in the globalization process, but however it is the very epicentre of tomorrow's success. For sure, we must take into account the uncertainties proper to human history. But future is the product of what is accomplished here and now to make a project out of it.
We incorporate our approach in the goal of creating a global village. Indeed, the stakes are high, for how can this be realized when the inhabitants do not trust each other? The Mediterranean world, with its identities and its history - the cradle of Western and Eastern civilizations - has a common past. It also opens up a real future for those who try to find in this region an answer to present problems. We believe that it is important to lay down the basis of a genuine union of the Mediterranean countries, an entity that would enable them to confront impending multiform threats.
For too long has the North-South divide weighed upon the world. The time has come for cooperation, for dialogue - the time of a common future. It is only by looking for, and by proposing adequate responses to those inequalities and conflicts that have been the result of North-South dichotomy that Mediterranean countries could unite for common development. Who would have thought at the end of the Second World War that France and Germany will be the driving force behind European Union? Today, in order to avoid risks of new crises and find solutions to the prevailing ones, but also from a geo-strategic viewpoint - with the growing influence of North-American and Asian economic powers - has the time not come to rouse Mediterranean countries to work for a balanced multipolar and pluralistic world?
We wish to avoid the traps, which are often, if not generated, at least fuelled by this lack of unity. They are numerous: national and religious conflicts, migration flows of impoverished populations, overexploitation of natural resources, global warming, etc Can Europe afford to lose its influence in the Mediterranean region at the profit of other powers? Would Mediterranean countries not gain from regional development; in the first instance, while reasserting autonomy and power, rather than being divided in zones of influence of external world powers?
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30 March
2010 - Meeting of the Board and the General Council scheduled in paris
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11 March
2009 - Meeting of the board of administration in Paris
Mr Giovanni
Pellegrino has been coopted as Vice-President of the Board, and Mr
Giulio Giordano as Vice-Secretary General and the coordinator of the
Leece Bureau, subjected to ratification by the General Assembly in June
2009. The venue and themes of the next session of the Forum were also
discussed.
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First Session of the Mediterranean Peace Forum held at the Acaya Castle in Lecce, Italy, from 27 to 29 November 2008
05-12-2008 () - The
Forum included eminent
political
and diplomatic personalities, economic decision makers, university
researchers,
internationally known and renowned for their commitment to principles
and
values of dialogue, peace, cooperation and living-together among
peoples. More...
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