to
the
29th session of the Conference of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of
Islamic Countries to be held in Khartoum, Sudan
14
– 16 Rabi Awal
1423 Corresponding to 25 –
27 May
2002
All thanks and praise be to Allah the Lord of Universes, and Peace and Blessings of Allah be on His Prophet and Messenger, our Guide and Messenger Muhammad Bin Abdullah, his Family, and All Companions.
Excellencies,
Assalam-o-Alaikum
Wa rahmatullah Wa barakatuh
Personally and on behalf of the International Islamic Forum for Dialogue which acts as a coordinator for more than 100 governmental and non-governmental organizations, including the members of the International Islamic Council for Da’awaa and Relief, and others, I am pleased to greet and address you in this responsible gathering which convenes today in Khartoum in order to mutually endeavor to put an end to the suffering of our nation, and to mobilize our own sources and resources to seriously deal with the challenges it faces, and to provide the elements of the nation promotion in order to achieve the hopes and aspirations of its generations.
Excellencies,
While
addressing you in this notable gathering, it would be more than enough to use
implicit reminders to issues well-known to you.
Based on that, allow me indicate to the following:
First:
You certainly know that there is some kind of a world system under
formation.
Second:
Some political and military alliances are taking place on the
international level.
Third:
a central economical system is being crystallized within the framework of
the globalization movement for purposes and aims quite known to you.
Fourth:
some kind of culture is
being designed to be the basis for the formation of the mentality and behaviors
of all human generations.
Fifth:
The international resolutions suffer from severe misbalance regarding
values and standards and suffer a swell, from a phenomenon of a growing
monopoly.
Such
trends that prevail over the international arena are controversial.
So
we support any positive initiative towards insuring the unity of the human
family, its interests and common security.
But at the same time, we and intellectuals all over the world are
opposing the phenomenon of the disorder of the standards and the morals of the
globule resolutions, likewise, we oppose other phenomena that confront the
inspiration of the human generations towards a just and secure co-existence, and
which confront with the truth of the cultural
diversity and the principle of dialogue amongst the civilizations as
being the effective and secure way to achieve mutual human interest.
Facing
such negative phenomena, and the likewise, we and others in many countries
world-wide – would like to pose the following questions:
1. Has the concept of the international village term
ended up contradicting with the human generation’s hopes and aspirations?
2. Have the pioneers of the democratic
game reviewed its values and missions?
3. What about the role of the
democratic game in managing the interests of the international village?
4. Is it not true that what is happening
in the world today confirms that the game of democracy is required only from the
small states in the international village, whereas some of the big powers in the
village have chosen another game irrelevant with democracy to achieve their
goals and interest on the account of others?
5. Has the situation already been settled
in favor of such trends that lack the factors of acceptance and continuation? Or the chance is still available for a dialogue and
cooperation to carrying out a jus world pact that secures
the achievement of the interests of human communities on equal footings?
6.
Is our nation ready to contribute effectively on the basis of its
cultural and human weight in the movement of international cultural interacting?
Let
us start, Excellencies, from the last question.
Are we really ready to activate our global cultural performance?
I
believe that the undisputed answer is that we are not ready, neither on the
required level nor on the level commensurate with our values, capabilities and
our eminent cultural mission.
I
believe also that we are not going to argue the fact that the main reasons for
the lack of such readiness lay in holding the will of the nation hostage on both
the regional and international levels.
But
what is really mortgaging our will?
First of all, we are not underestimating the conspiracy and its
continuous attempts against our nation in
order to hinder resuming of its cultural march; but at the same time we are not
with a phenomenon of the absolute conspiratorial interpretation of our divers
crises which takes the responsibility away from ourselves and some of our
practices; which may sometime be more fatal than the conspiracy and the
conspirators.
Is
it not in point of objectivity to admit that the division of our word and a
dispersion of our state , are still the main source of our holding our will
hostage , crippling our capabilities, an covering up our cultural mission from
the others?
Is
it not about time to put an end to such a deplorable reality of our nation on
the governmental an nongovernmental, as well as, regional, national and global
levels.
Is
it not about time to contemplate together as leaders and peoples, with all
objectivity to seek the means, ways and factors of curing the reality of our
nation, its and to work together to untie its will, therefore activate means of
achieving thegoals of its values and pioneer human mission?
Excellencies,
for the sake of such a
noble hope, I came to your distinguished conference with a proposal, in the name
of elite of your brothers and colleagues, the religious and intellectual
leaders, about achievement a general reconciliation in the nation, according to
the following steps:
1. It is for your august conference to
take a decision to expand and develop the performance of the religious and
intellectual leaderships in the framework of the organization of the Islamic
conference, in order to mobilize the governmental and non – governmental
activities of the Ummah in one current aiming at the achievement of its
interests and the maintaining of its mutual security.
2. Setting up a
governmental and non - governmental committee in the framework of the Islamic
conference organization to crystallize the values and mechanisms of a general
reconciliation project amongst the activities of our nation at all levels.
3.
Endeavour to support and increase the budget of the Islamic conference
organization to enable it to develop its institutional infrastructure, improve
its performance, and to better undertake its responsibilities regarding the
concerns and aspirations of the nations generations.
Finally,
we
reiterate our emphasis on the importance of the activation of the governmental
and non-governmental organizations of the nation and unifying their efforts and
directives. With those two wings ,
it would take off from arenas of its recession and stumbling, also with those
two wings and by the serious complementary between them it would fly off in
horizons of its glory and dignity.
We pray to Allah Almighty to grant us with
success to achieve this noble goal.