«We all have within us a centre of stillness surrounded by silence. This house (United Nations), dedicated to work and debate in the service of peace, should have one room dedicated to silence in the outward sense and stillness in the inner sense. It has been the aim to create in this small room a place where the doors may open to the infinite lands of thought and prayer.»

Dag Hammerskjold Former United Nations Secretary General

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By Dr Liviu Olteanu, Secretary General of the International Association for the Defense of Religious Liberty


Meetings in New York of H.E. Adama DIENG, Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser of the UN Secretary-General on Prevention of Genocide with Dr. Liviu Olteanu, the AIDLR Secretary-General, initiator of the Global Summits and Dialogue Five frame


New York City. June 23-24, 2019

Liviu Olteanu, the Secretary General of the AIDLR, met in New York on 23 and 24 June with H.E. Adama Dieng, Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide, and jointly assessed the current need for a Report on the Second Global Summit on Religion Peace and Security, held in the Palais of Nations of Geneva the 29 April to 1 May and co-organized by the UN Office of Genocide Prevention and the AIDLR 2019.

After Honorable Antonio Guterres, the Secretary-General of the UN has launched recently the UN Plan of Action on Countering Hate Speech, the meeting between the Under-Secretary-General Adama Dieng and Liviu Olteanu has been focus on the “Dialogue Five Commission on Religion, Peace and Security” where as a result of the great success of previous Global summits, the AIDLR assumed a coordinating role with other actors, and looking to create a periodical evaluation and implementation, in praxis, of the U.N. Plans of Action; for it has been proposed working on constituting the Commission and the next global event was proposed to take place in New York on April-May 2020.



Liviu Olteanu, AIDLR Secretary-General with H.E. Mr. Adama Dieng at the UN Headquarters Offices in New York.