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Euroasian Jewish News
The Presidents conference / EAJC Participation.
13.05.2008
Jerusalem, Israel
 On May 13 a Presidents conference organized by President of Israel Shimon Peres and timed to the 60th anniversary of Israel's independence was opened in Jerusalem in Palace of Congresses ("Binyaney a-Uma "). This is the most imposing conference in Israel's history and it gathered in Jerusalem tens of state and government heads, leaders of world business, Nobel prizewinners, scientists and artists.
13 leaders of American and European states arrived to take part in the conference, with the USA President George Bush, President of France Nicolas Sarcozy, President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili, former President of the Ukraine Leonid Kuchma, former president of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev, former Prime Minister of Great Britain and envoy of the International Quartet in the Middle East Tony Blair, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany Joshka Fischer, Federation Council of the Russian Federation Chairman Sergey Mironov, media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, former USA State Secretary Henry Kissinger, President of the Ukraine Victor Yushchenko, President of Poland Lech Kachinsky, Nobel prizewinner and former leader of Czechoslovakia Vatslav Gavel, Nobel prizewinner Eli Vizel, and other high-ranking guests.
A delegation of Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC) led by Alexander Machkevitch and composed of EAJC Vice-President Yuri Raskin, EAJC Executive Vice-President Fyodor Ossinin, EAJC Secretary General Mikhail Chlenov and EAJC General Council Chairman Joseph Zissels took part in the Presidents conference work.
Leader of the EAJC delegation Alexander Machkevitch visited a dinner for distinguished guests on the invitation of Shimon Peres. In the conference papers, which were distributed among the participants, the EAJC President is named among the people who worked for this forum to be held.
A.Machkevitch told the journalists: "Such conference witnesses that peoples and countries - and Israel, too - desire peace on the Middle East and it gives us hope. We are convinced that Israel with the capital in united Jerusalem is not an aggressive source of conflict between two peoples, as the missile attack on Ashkelon has shown, when tens of innocent Jews suffered, and little children, too. We have no doubts that this inhuman "greeting" on the 60th anniversary of Israel will not leave our will for peace and safety for all people in the Middle East".
Three day's Jerusalem forum touched upon the questions of peaceful regulation in the Middle East, strategies and tactics of the development of humanity, ways to create prosperous and peaceful future "without borders", uniting and developing creative, scientific, and cultural potentials of states and peoples with different opinions and different history.
EAJC Public Relations and Media Department
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