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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 17-04-24
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[01] Kotzias: We can and should continue spreading the peaceful values
of culture
[01] Kotzias: We can and should continue spreading the peaceful values
of culture
Culture is soft power and an economic factor, Foreign Minister Nikos
Kotzias said on Monday at the closing press conference of the "Ancient
Civilizations Forum" held in Athens.
"Culture for us is soft power and an economic factor. It is what humanizes
people and enables us to tell the untold in a way that dispels fears and
insecurities […] we concluded that we can and must continue to work
together to spread the peaceful values of culture and agreed in the
next two months that there should be a number of plans and projects,"
he said speaking at Zappeion.
"We prefer dialog to fanaticism, we prefer civilization to terrorist
acts. We prefer to retrieve the wisdom of our peoples from the past and
seal the future," he added.
Following the end of the forum, the ten participating countries - Greece,
Italy, China, Egypt, India, Iran, Iraq, Peru, Bolivia and Mexico –
renewed their meeting for 2018, agreeing to hold the second forum
in Bolivia.
The aims of the forum are to open it to new members and observers,
invite representatives from UNESCO, the UN and other international
organizations depending on the subject, record speeches in a book and
create a network of specialists.
The two-day event was an initiative of Kotzias who organized it together
with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi.
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