Representative in the House of Representatives of the BiH Parliament, Saša Magazinović, attended the session of the Committee for Sustainable Development of the Global Parliament for Peace and Tolerance in Malta, where he addressed officials in the capacity of president.
In his speech on the topic of building peace and tolerance in the region that includes the countries of the Mediterranean, the Middle East and North Africa, Magazinović placed special emphasis on the new generations and their role in the development of a culture of tolerance and peace.
“Do we ask ourselves how insufficiently we pay attention to young people, how little we tell them about the culture of peace and tolerance, about how much our differences are actually our advantage? Do we think enough about who are role models for young people and why it is so? In my the country is growing generations among which there are worryingly many of those for whom war criminals are heroes. They were born after the war. They learn this from their elders, among other things, from politicians who do not recognize war crimes and glorify convicted war criminals! Believe me, this is certainly not a prerequisite for sustainable peace,” he said.
Magazinović was also one of the speakers on the panel on the role of the European Union as a global player in ensuring peace in the Balkan region, chaired by the President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, Duarte Pacheco.
“I really believe that the values on which the EU is based are an exemplary model of values on which modern societies should be based. The problem arises when the EU outside its borders supports or closes its eyes to values that it would never allow in its community. That is why I believe that The EU had to respect and promote its values in every part of the world in order to be respected itself,” he said, Klix.ba reports.
