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Tue, 11/25/2008 - 17:21
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LECH WALESA INTERESTED IN VISITING INDONESIA
Jakarta, Nov 25 (ANTARA) - Former Polish President and Solidarity Movement leader Lech Walesa has expressed interest in visiting Indonesia, according to a report from Warsaw.
"I would like to visit Indonesia to have a dialog with the country's figures and hear their views on how to respond to the various challenges of globalization," Walesa told Indonesian ambassador to Poland Hazairin Pohan at a meeting recently, according to a press statement received from the Indonesian embassy in the Polish capital on Tuesday.
Walesa, a Nobel Peace laureate in 1983 for his contribution towards establishing "universal freedom of organization in all countries", received Pohan at his office in Gdansk recently.
He said Solidarity had come to represent the determination to resolve conflicts and overcome disagreements through peaceful negotiations.
The Polish politician and a former trade union and human rights activist who spearheaded East Europa's anti-Communist movement in the 1980s said he had never visited Indonesia.
According to Walesa, democratization alone could not solve the challenges of globalization because the world order at present was still far from perfect as the human race was facing complex phenomena such as world economic recession, terrorism, climate change, and horizontal conflicts in various regions.
As a devout Catholic with 8 grown-up children, Walesa believed that the world would not be able to survive without religious values and democracy.
He said Indonesia as the world's most populous Muslim country was a good example in its ability to match religious values with a democratic political framework.
"To learn about Indonesia's experience in harmonizing religious values with democracy will be of great value to me to make a dialog to find the solution of global problems," Walesa said.
Meanwhile, Indonesian Ambassador to Poland Hazairin Pohan said he would organize Walesa's visit to Indonesia early next year.
"I would like to visit Indonesia to have a dialog with the country's figures and hear their views on how to respond to the various challenges of globalization," Walesa told Indonesian ambassador to Poland Hazairin Pohan at a meeting recently, according to a press statement received from the Indonesian embassy in the Polish capital on Tuesday.
Walesa, a Nobel Peace laureate in 1983 for his contribution towards establishing "universal freedom of organization in all countries", received Pohan at his office in Gdansk recently.
He said Solidarity had come to represent the determination to resolve conflicts and overcome disagreements through peaceful negotiations.
The Polish politician and a former trade union and human rights activist who spearheaded East Europa's anti-Communist movement in the 1980s said he had never visited Indonesia.
According to Walesa, democratization alone could not solve the challenges of globalization because the world order at present was still far from perfect as the human race was facing complex phenomena such as world economic recession, terrorism, climate change, and horizontal conflicts in various regions.
As a devout Catholic with 8 grown-up children, Walesa believed that the world would not be able to survive without religious values and democracy.
He said Indonesia as the world's most populous Muslim country was a good example in its ability to match religious values with a democratic political framework.
"To learn about Indonesia's experience in harmonizing religious values with democracy will be of great value to me to make a dialog to find the solution of global problems," Walesa said.
Meanwhile, Indonesian Ambassador to Poland Hazairin Pohan said he would organize Walesa's visit to Indonesia early next year.
