Your Excellencies, Dear friends,

Ladies and Gentlemen,

It is with great pleasure that I welcome you today to celebrate the breaking of the fast together.

Ramadan is the holiest month in Islam. It is a period to unite. To unite families, friends, people and the communities. To unite for reflection and spiritual enrichment.

In the contemporary time when the world is still faced with conflicts on ethnic, cultural, religious and racial grounds, the humanity is looking for a way to building peaceful and stable societies. And Islam as well as all world religions provide a valuable foundation for the culture of peace, the culture based on the promotion of common values of dialogue, mutual understanding and tolerance. It also upholds advancement of social justice and calls upon for helping the people in need and protecting the most vulnerable in our societies.

As a multilateral platform for dialogue and cooperation, uniting 27 Asian countries with diverse cultural background, CICA attaches a great importance to ensuring peaceful and amicable relations among the different communities and nations across the CICA area. The updated in October 2021 the CICA Catalogue of the confidence building measures underscores the importance of building trust in the human dimension. Promotion of dialogue among civilizations, cultures and religions is at the core of the CICA activities.

Today’s event brings together Muslims and people of the other faiths who are committed to a shared goal for fostering peace, stability and prosperity. Soon the Christians will celebrate the Easter and Jews – the Passover. I would like to extent my warmest wishes to all those observing these important moments as well.

These collaborations bring us closer to achieving our common goal through enhancing people to people contacts, through partnerships and connectivity based on respect for diversity.