Titus Corlatean to participate in "Tolerance trumps hate" conference, in Brussels

Social Democratic Party (PSD) Senator Titus Corlatean on Friday, at the invitation of the Chairmanship in office of the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers, will participate in the high level conference organised in Brussels on the topic "Tolerance trumps hate," informs a press release remitted to AGERPRES on Thursday.

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According to the cited source, the conference is organised by the Belgian Chairmanship of the Council of Europe in the context generated by the recent terrorist attacks in Paris and Copenhagen, as well as on the Jewish Museum of Brussels occurred in May 2014.

This context is marked by the "manifestation of some violent activities of an extremist and terrorist nature at the level of some organised groups in Europe," the press release points out.

Senator Titus Corlatean, member of the Senate's committee on foreign policy and member of the Romanian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, will have an intervention in the conference titled "High Level Session."

Political, governmental leaders, high representatives of the Council of Europe, representatives of the European civil society are guests of the conference.

The source mentions among the participants in the conference Didier Reynders, Belgium Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and European Affairs, Chairman of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, Secretary General of the Council of Europe Thorbjorn Jagland, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, ministers of the Council of Europe member states or observers near the aforementioned European organisation. AGERPRES