Rumi

and humankind. Our world today faces many challenges and much pain resulting from injustice on a global scale. The great scholar of our civilization, Rumi, once defined justice as “appropriately sharing rights and obligations among the people and allocating to them what they are entitled to”. It is obvi

the likelihood of early child mortality of a baby born in Africa is nine times greater than that of a baby born here. The famous Islamic philosopher Rumi, who began shining a beacon from the city of Konya, in the heartland of Anatolia, in order to enlighten all souls across the world, once said that ju

also have enormous potential to be the regional brokers of peace, a hub for economic prosperity and a beacon of democratic values. The birthplace of Rumi still resounds with messages of love, peace and hope. Afghanistan will yet again be the Asian crossroads for dialogue among civilizations and a model

engage in discourse on our philosophy. Our ambassadors are our poets, mystics and philosophers. We have reached these shores of the Atlantic through Rumi and spread our influence all over Asia with Saadi.

nd all other actions and behaviours that aggravate the effects of climate change. Climate change for us in the Caribbean is not a matter for academic rumination. The humanitarian crisis unfolding in the Caribbean in the wake of Hurricanes Irma and Maria is stark testimony to the fact that climate change

on putting together a comprehensive and thoughtful paper that raises the issues that Member States need to address. There is much in there for us to ruminate on but there is also room for us to add ideas to it. For example, the report, for obvious reasons, refrains from trying to apportion blame or inv

It is a prospect made grim not only by the gruesome rumination over the use of nuclear power on a limited basis, but also, even more chilling, by the awesome capacity possessed by some States to annihilate

surrounded by many contradictions and it has found turned against it the results of its aggressive policies. The crisis of United States imperialism ruminated in the recent economic measures announced by Nixon. They reflect the growing obstacles that United States monopolies are finding in their role a