M. Charakopoulos: at IPU and WCC in Geneva: Interfaith understanding as a compass to face the challenges of the modern worldtranslated

"We wholeheartedly support any initiative that promotes interfaith dialogue and the concerted efforts of the parliamentary and religious spheres to alleviate the challenges of the modern world. Our presence at the historic headquarters of the IPU, the so-called "House of Parliaments", testifies exactly to the significant role we are called to play in the troubled times we are going through", emphasized the Secretary General of the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of Orthodoxy (DSO), Member of the Hellenic Parliament, Dr. Maximos Harakopoulos, in the meeting he had with the new Secretary General of the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly Union (IPU), Ambassador Mr. Anda Filip in Geneva. The President of the General Assembly of the DSO, Member of the House of Representatives of Romania, Mr. Ioan Vulpescu, and the Councilor of the DSO, Dr. Kostas Mygdalis, also participated in the meeting.

The Secretary General of the IPU agreed with the head of the world organization of parliaments on the need for an integrated strategic cooperation in the field of promoting dialogue between parliamentary and religious institutions in the spirit of the Declarations adopted by the IPU at the Parliamentary Conferences on...