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Alliance of Civilizations
Jorge Sampaio meets with Aga Khan
The former President of the Republic Jorge Sampaio and Prince Aga Khan, spiritual leader of Muslims and institutional ismaelitas, held a meeting today in Lisbon to talk about “the importance of the Alliance of Civilizations”.
“The meeting served to see how it sees its alteza in each time the Alliance of Civilizations and that, perhaps, can be expected to do together in the future,” explained Jorge Sampaio, currently the UN High Commissioner for the Alliance of Civilizations .
To leave the meeting, held at Hotel Ritz in Lisbon, the former President of the Republic underlined that the “vision of Aga Khan and what he represents are very important in the context of the Alliance of Civilizations to the management of pluralism and cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue. ”
“Currently there is a great challenge and there is a great way for go. To begin with we must find political solutions to political problems,” he said, stressing that “dialogue on cultural diversity can be a before and after” for political solution of processes difficult.
Jorge Sampaio stressed the need for “concrete and definitive finding things that contribute to improving the situation of each one, especially in those places and places where there are conflicts on a larger scale.”
“When the poverty rife, oil rises, all this shaking. Shaking And also the conflict that can not be resolved by a simplistic way,” explained the current UN High Commissioner for the Alliance of Civilizations.
Questionado by Lusa on the trials of Iranian missiles in the Persian Gulf in recent days, Jorge Sampaio refused to make any comment.
The Aga Khan’s visit to Portugal, which runs until next Monday at the invitation of the Portuguese government, he comes in a series of trips to various parts of the world to mark the year of its golden jubilee of – the 50 anniversary since it is became Imam, spiritual leader of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims, a community of 15 million Muslims, of whom eight thousand are currently living in Portugal.
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