Dr. Rajwant Singh director of Guru Gobind Singh Foundation representing the Sikh religion, will be among 300 spiritual and religious leaders, elected legislators of the Soviet Union, scientists, journalists and political leaders from 52 countries who will be meeting in Moscow for the first International forum on human survival on January 15-19.
Sponsored by the Global Forum of Spiritual and Parliamentary Leaders (GPSPL), the Supreme Soviet, the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, the Russian Orthodox Church and other Soviet religious communities, the Global Forum has its goal to bring different leadership groups together to tackle critical survival issues.
“Lasting peaceful solutions require both the immediate practical actions of the politicians as well as the longer range ethnic viewpoint of the spiritual leaders,” said Libby Bassett, spokesman for the GPSPL. “Together their different perspectives can create a truly “global mind” and generate novel approaches to our global environment crisis.”
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, a keynote speaker and UN Secretary General D’Perez Cuellar will participate Due to recent developments in the Soviet Union, all the other foreign engagements of President Gorbachey’s has been cancelled except this one.
Among the approximately 700 other participants will be Dr Raywant Singh from the Sikh faith, Satpaul Mittal, Rayya Sabha member of India; Dr. Karan Singh in his capacity as a leader of the Hindu faith; New Jersey based Jain leader, Sushil Kumar Mum, and Muslim leaders Dr, Muhammad Abdal Ranj and Dr. Imanulah Khan
Three U.S. Senators, Dave Durenberger, Albert Gore, and Senator Claiborne Pell, Dr. Carl Sagan, an astronomer; Dr. Jacques Cousteau an Oceanographer, and Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundt-land will be among the keynote speakers, Soviet Foreign Secretary Edward Sheverhardze will also be attending the conference.
GFSPL was created in 1985 by the Temple of Understanding an international interfaith organizat190, and the Global Communities of Parliamentarians on Population and Development.
“I want to take the message of the Sikh Gumus to this global meeting,” Said Dr. Rajwant Singh, “Which emphasized that his whole universe 15 the manifestation of God. As religious persons, we not only should be concerned about the well-being of our fellowmen but also about the environment in which we reside.
“Beyond merely looking at problems confronting the world, the forum will provide a special opportunity to highlight solutions ‘or “success stories” of environmentally sustainable development,” Bassett said, adding, “These will be drawn from as many countries as possible in an effort to promote a model of development that can be sustained for future generations,”
The Global Forum concept was the outgrowth of the Global Survival Conference held in April 1988 at Oxford University where over 200 spiritual and parliamentary leaders met, At that meeting the Dala Lama, Mother Teresa the Archbishop of Canterbury and others came together to promote understanding among different religion. The Miners forum a connation of work toward the goal.
Dr Bareon singh any was elected 6 Board of Temp! Understanding base on New York,
Article extracted from this publication >> January 12, 1990
