Consultative Meeting on Peace Charter Held in Phnom Penh

The National Assembly joined forces with the Asian Vision Institute and the Global Council for Tolerance and Peace Friday to draft a peace charter to be adopted later this year.

The consultative meeting on the proposed charter was the first of its kind to bring together experts, practitioners, scholars, policymakers and lawmakers to discuss the draft.

H.E. Suos Yara – chairman of the National Assembly Commission on Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Information – opened the meeting which included Indian and Sri Lankan lawmakers as well as senior members of the International Association of Parliamentarians for Peace from South Korea and Nepal.

Hungary is scheduled to host a second consultative meeting on the charter in Budapest from Sept. 18 to 20.

The charter is expected to be adopted at the Eleventh Plenary Session of the International Parliament for Tolerance and Peace hosted by the National Assembly in Phnom Penh in November.

As a multilateral instrument and framework, the charter aims to
galvanise, strengthen and deepen international solidarity and multi-stakeholder dialogue, cooperation and partnerships for peace, harmony, human dignity and prosperity in a free, open, inclusive and non-binding character.

The charter is expected to cover five pillars – conflict prevention, peace-building and good offices, transitional justice, post-conflict reconstruction, and food security and sustainable development in response to climate change.

Source: Agence Kampuchea Presse