AMT: Gave Speech at The World Peace Summit-Korea (2018-Sep): About 25 Former and Current Presidents attended

Speech at Global Conference of The World Peace Summit- South Korea (17th Sep- 2018)

I, Aung Myint Thu, gave a speech at The World Peace Summit- South Korea, attended by many former and current presidents { 4th Anniversary of the WARP Summit (17^th to 19^th)} . More than 25 former and current presidents (from Romania, Ukraine, Burundi, Guyana, Kyrgystan, and Nepal and so on) and 50 experts from various fields, and introduced various activities and methods attended the summit. We were there to discuss ways to resolve conflicts and create practical action plans based on the principles of the Declaration of Peace and Cessation of War (DPCW) to work together to achieve peace around the world. My speech is based on Myanmar Civil War, which has already been about 70 years.

Here, at Global Conference of the summit, these leaders who made also their speech are H.E. Ivo Josipović, Former President of Croatia, H.E. Samuel Sam-Sumana, Former Vice President of the Republic of Sierra Leone, H.E. Stanislaw Shushkevich, Former Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Republic of Belarus, Ms. Mandy Patsy Moustache, 1st Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Seychelles, Mrs. Dr. Hj. Elza Syarief .SH .MH, HAPI, Himpunan Advokat Pengacara Indonesia and leaders of HWPL, IPYG and IWPG.

Ref: http://hwpl.kr/en/news/view/180918331/0/GlobalConferencefortheUNAdoptionoftheDPCW {Video: https://youtu.be/wRFVfRw6PoI / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ9VTnQcx_o&t=52s }

The fire of peace, which was ignited at the Peace Festival for the 2018 HWPL World Peace Summit: 4^th Anniversary of the WARP Summit, was followed by a gathering of representatives of around 200 youth groups from 40 countries in cooperation with the International Peace Youth Group (IPYG) on September 19^th. The heads of these youth organizations from each country that attended the session shared examples of the past year's activities to support the Declaration of Peace and Cessation of War (DPCW) and discussed ways to expand and sustain future activities.

A total of 67 journalists from 60 media outlets in 30 countries participated in this year’s conference. Participants collectively created plans for the qualitative and quantitative expansion of the reports of peace activities in countries all around the world as compared to the previous year. They also had time to discuss how journalists can cooperate and actively participate in the “Peace Initiative” platform.

Many world elder leaders, former President and Prime Ministers, Judges, and International law experts have joined to the Peace Festival, and delivered their speeches to maintain world peace with a slogan of “We Are One” for world peace-making. They also urged the current world leaders who are in power, to approve the HWPL initiated Declaration of Peace and Cessation of War (DPCW), which has 10 Articles and 38 clauses.

Those Leaders who gave speech on 17th with me (AMT)

HWPL and the global leaders from various countries, religions, youths, women, education leaders and media, are agreeing to push for the confirmation of DPWC, and proposed in UN Assembly to adopt it as a binding laws to the global governments, with a key purposes of reducing weapons and stopping war.

According to the Department of Public Relations of HWPL, there are about 200, 000 members of HWPL, and they could not come, but held the festival in their cities. There are about 20 cities held the festival at the similar time. They also confirmed that there are nearly 100 locations around the world have held the festival by appreciating World Alliance of Religious Peace (WARP) and 2018 World Peace Summit.