Hakim: Baghdad will be the starting point of stability in the region

Baghdad

 
The head of the Alliance for Reform and Reconstruction Ammar al-Hakim, on Friday, to the need to strengthen the policy of openness of international and regional witnessed by Iraq and the great development in international relations being the real power to build positive relations, indicating that Baghdad will be the starting point of stability in the region as was the start of storms of change The Arab World. 

"The international and regional openness witnessed by Iraq has made a major development in its international relations with the countries of the region and the world," Hakim said during the first conference of the Iraq Summit of Non-Governmental Organizations held in Baghdad and his follow-up, Alsumaria News, stressing "the need to strengthen the policy of openness as the real force to build positive relations "Noting that Baghdad will be the starting point for stability in the region as it was the starting point of the storms of change in the Arab world.




Al-Hakim added that "civil society organizations are the fifth authority because of the great influence in the democratic system where the relationship is complementary between these organizations and the democratic system, especially after the expansion of volunteering and become a donor community whenever democracy is established and contributed to support the state and the system." Roles between democratic organizations and systems ". 

He explained that "democracy is not slogans, but behavior and culture must be crystallized everywhere in the work and home in dealing with others and accept each other's different with him intellectually, culturally, nationally, culturally and politically and democracy is established is the culture of life, not culture of death and culture of optimism and hope and peaceful coexistence Culture of exclusion and marginalization and establish a culture of love and affection, not culture of hatred and hatred, "stressing the need for openness to be a general feature.

He added that "the consolidation of this culture is not only through the active role of civil society organizations and this needs to work and effort to build effective civil society organizations," pointing to "the importance of building capacity and energies and qualify a generation of young people able to face the negative aspects of society as well as the production of real programs Effective actors that support the foundations of democracy. " 

Al-Hakim called for "the need to attract volunteers who wish to provide services in various fields within the civil society organizations," pointing out "the need for the independence of civil society organizations and to target everyone in their interests away from sectarian and national affiliations."

He stressed the importance of "supporting the state and government to these organizations to take their real role at the same time should work to strengthen the organizations' principles and credibility in dealing with and dealing with various social situations," and called for "cooperation between civil society organizations and government institutions and end the intertwined between them, There must be complementarity between civil society and state institutions and that these institutions do not consider that the organizations are rivals to them. "