A number of Iraqi and Lebanese activists and clerics held a meeting in Beirut under auspices of Carnegie endowment to submit a recommendation draft on future of pluralism amid the civil movement in Iraq to the United Nations and other international bodies.
The meeting was attended by Saad Salloum, the general coordinator of Masarat Foundation for Cultural and Media Development, Jawad Al-Khoie, a member of the Iraqi Council for Interfaith Dialogue , Amir Jiji, an advisor to the papal council for Muslim –Christian dialogue in Vatican, and a number of intellectuals and former ministers of Lebanon and other Arab countries.
The attendees discussed many issues such as militarizing minorities, fate of the disputed areas, barriers to the civilian movement amid, that is religious and political limitations, clerics attitude to the civilian movement, comparing the current civil movement with the previous one of February/25/2011, laying emphasis on setting up a substitute for the current state to be able to accommodate all its components.
Salloum explained the history of the Iraqi components including their achievements and the challenges that they are facing, stressing that they do not leave their country though.
Jiji said that the Iraqi minorities constitute a major basis of the Iraqi solidarity, that is, what Iraq did in terms of civilization turns out that it is a country of peaceful coexistence.
Khoie added that due to youth and wise clerics Iraq future will be better than the current, saying that the main aim of their criticism is to improve the current situations.
It is crucial to mention that this visit resulted in a number of symposiums and conferences on future of pluralism in the Middle East.
