Euroasian Jewish News

Alexander Mashkevich and Shimon Peres

EAJC President Participates in Second Presidential Congress

The substantial delegation of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC), led by its President Alexander Mashkevich, took part in the Second Presidential Congress under the aegis of the President of Israel Shimon Peres, which opened on the evening of the 20th of October at the Congress Center of the Jerusalem International Convention Center..
Among the 3500 participants and guests of the conference, which took place under the slogan “Facing Tomorrow,” were important politicians and social activists, philosophers and benefactos. Among them – the USA Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice, the envoy of the international “quartet” in the Near East Tony Blair, the High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) Javier Solana. The participants and guests of the conference were greeted by the President of the State of Israel Shimon Peres. The policy statement during the opening of the congress was made by the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Such a representative forum is gathering in Israel for the second time. Its purpose is to accumulate the combined potential of people capable of innovative answers to difficult questions and making important decisions.” The EAJC President said in an interview. “The Presidential Congress under the aegis of Nobel prize winner Shimon Peres became a creative ground for the search for responses to political, economic, and cultural challenges which stand before the modern world. It is highly symbolic that it is in Jerusalem, the city that is holy to most of the people on our planet, we are now trying to chart a course to a stable future.”
Before the beginning of the conference, Alexander Mashkevich took part in the meeting of leading sponsors of the conference with the President of Israel.