President of the Republic, General Michel Aoun, welcomed the adoption by the UN General Assembly of his proposal to establish the Academy for Human Encounters and Dialogue.
The draft resolution received 165 votes while the United States and Israel voted against it.
President Aoun said that the UN General Assembly’s vote in favor of his draft resolution to establish the Human Academy shall give further impetus to Lebanon to move forward in the realization of this initiative, which contributes to the establishment of the language of dialogue and the renunciation of violence and extremism.
In his delivered word on Monday evening, Aoun thanked all the countries that supported the draft resolution and voted in its favor, stressing that the establishment of the Academy will put Lebanon once again in its leading position in terms of dialogue among cultures and religions, as well as the dissimination of the message of rapprochemnt and communication amongst peoples.
