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By APD writer Adtiya Nugraha
French President Emmanuel Macron launched the second Paris Peace Forum here on Monday, inviting national leaders, high-level officials and heads of international organizations to discuss solutions to global challenges.
Macron expected the second Paris Peace Forum, scheduled to run until Wednesday, would be attended by 27 head of states, leaders of several businesses and NGOs as well as various civil society actors.
Head of the forum, who is a former World Trade Organization (WTO) leader, Pascal Lamy said that a governance challenge has emerged at present from the global scale of the problem compared to capacity of international system to properly address the problem.
“The main objective of the event will be to encourage international co-operation and collective action for a world at peace,” Lamy said in the launching event.
"We want to give priority not to discussions, to symposia but to the search for solutions, so we will show, expose, submit to debate a hundred projects," Lamy said.
Ten of the projects will be chosen to receive support from a “Scale-Up Committee” – a panel of 10 experienced and influential personalities in their field of activity. The results will be assessed at the next forum in 2020.
The forum would be featured with high level discussions and debates on various issues, among others future of global trade, how to counter climate change and save the world’s oceans, preventing extremism and new technologies such as artificial intelligence.
The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was expected to deliver his remarks to address the event.
Among the dignitaries scheduled to attend the opening session on Tuesday were French President Emmanuel Macron, Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan, the European Commission President-Elect Ursula von der Leyen, and President of the Democratic Republic of Congo Felix Tshisekedi.
The first forum held last year was attended by Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russia President Vladimir Putin.
(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)
