KATHMANDU, August 23: High officials of the Global Council for Tolerance and Peace (GCTP) have said that the world wants to learn from Nepal's peace process after meeting with Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota.
Officials of GCTP said that they want to learn a lot from Nepal during a courtesy meeting with Speaker Sapkota at his office in Singha Durbar on Monday.
In the meeting, Ahmed Al Jarwan, the current president of GCTP, which has more than 90 countries involved in working in the field of world peace and tolerance, said, “It is necessary for everyone to adopt the culture of peace and tolerance, for this we have a lot to learn from the peace process of Nepal.” President Jarwan said that Nepal is a good example of peace-building and unity among diversity has inspired parliamentarians from many countries around the world to come to Nepal.
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The members of the delegation expressed their desire to hold a global conference in the near future in Nepal, a country that has sent a message of peace to the world as the birthplace of Lord Buddha, for its support by sending a peacekeeping force through the United Nations.
In the meeting, Speaker Sapkota said that the importance of peace and tolerance has increased in the current world environment and pointed out the need for unlimited efforts from everyone. Informing that many issues of the peace process in Nepal have been completed and some are left, Speaker Sapkota opined that the best practices in peacekeeping here can be important for the world.
Speaker Sapkota stressed the need for unity and cooperation between the organizations working for the establishment of world peace and said that the Federal Parliament under his leadership is always ready for cooperation.
In that meeting, the members of the 13-member delegation from different countries of GCTP said that the work done by Nepal in the field of gender equality is exemplary. Meanwhile, a memorandum of understanding was signed between the Federal Parliament of Nepal and the Global Council for Tolerance and Peace on Monday.
The Memorandum of Understanding was signed in the presence of Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota at a program held at the Lhotse Hall of the Federal Parliament Building, New Baneshwar on Monday afternoon. The Memorandum of Understanding was signed by the Secretary of the House of Representatives Gopalnath Yogi on behalf of Nepal and Zoran Ilievski on behalf of the GCTP.
