ROMA — Deputizing for His Majesty King Abdullah, HRH
Prince Hassan participated on Friday in the eighth edition of the Rome
Med-Mediterranean Dialogue, an annual high-level conference on Mediterranean
geopolitics, according to the Jordan News Agency, Petra.
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Prince Hassan
emphasized the need to enhance regional integration and cooperation, rely on
policies that increase the region’s effectiveness and influence in resolving
various issues, and foster a culture that asserts the universality of values,
diversity, and acceptance of others.
More than 200
speakers from 60 countries are taking part in the high-profile event which was
opened by Italian President Sergio Mattarella.
The prince said
that the Mediterranean region has historically been a gateway for convergence,
an important outlet between Africa and Eurasia, and a key to establishing
intercontinental contacts in what geographer Halford Mackinder calls the
“Island of the World” (Afro-Eurasia).
Prince Hassan
urged the development of the Great Rift Valley, which stretches from the
eastern Mediterranean to the southeast Dead Sea and the Red Sea and on south
through East Africa, and said that many countries in this part of the world
struggle with conflicts and political, cultural, and religious challenges, as
well as the management of natural resources.
He renewed his
call for the formation of a regional economic and social council, with youth
participation, to discuss their ideas and vision for the region and unlock
their potential.
In addition, he
emphasized the importance of using the multiple deprivation index to determine
which issues should be prioritized in the context of poverty, food, education,
and other basic necessities.
Prince Hassan
also stressed the need for a geopolitical database that takes into account
religious holy sites in order to firmly establish a “Jerusalem consciousness”
and to support the Arab civilization in the Holy City.
The prince
emphasized the need to use technology as a tool for developing evidence-based
policies and exchanging information to address crises, as well as the
significance of investing in human capital to empower people.
The Rome Med-Mediterranean Dialogue is an annual
high-level conference on Mediterranean geopolitics promoted by the Italian
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the Institute of
Studies on International Politics. It took place for the first time in 2015 and
has since then been hosted every year in Rome, Italy.
The event gathers
institutional representatives, experts, analysts, youths and stakeholders from
the civil society, from the economic sphere and from the media to discuss the
main challenges in the Mediterranean region and to bolster intra-regional cooperation,
based on four pillars: shared security, shared prosperity, migration, and
culture and civil society.
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