02/12/2010 President
“Light is the symbol of tolerance, education and respect for others. All these symbols that unite the Jews across the world during the eight days of Hanukkah are also the symbols and values that unite all the people across Europe in an institution that I have the honour to chair, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe,” the PACE President Mevlüt Çavusoglu said today on the occasion of the rekindling of the Hanukkah Flame in Paris.
“But in the same way as the light of Hanukkah is fragile and needs a lot of care and common effort to be carried through, so do the values that we are trying to nurture.
I have personally placed the need for dialogue between cultures and religions and, more generally, the fight against prejudice and the promotion of tolerance at the heart of my action as a President of the Assembly. I am therefore really happy to share my beliefs with you at such a highly symbolic moment,” the PACE President concluded.