Chinchilla Meets
Peace Festival
Leaders
(UPI) -
Representatives
of a peace
festival invited
Costa Rican
President Laura
Chinchilla to
lead a Latin
American
delegation to
the group's
convention in
Africa.
Representatives
of the Global
Peace Festival
Foundation, led
by Chairman Hyun
Jin Moon, met
recently with
Chinchilla and
discussed the
group's
activities,
including
upcoming
festivals in
Nepal, Indonesia
and Paraguay
ahead of the
Global Peace
Convention in
November in
Nairobi, Kenya.
Chinchilla said
she would try to
attend one of
the meetings
this year.
Chinchilla told
festival
organizers: "In
Costa Rica you
will always have
an open door.
Costa Rica has
the moral
resolve that is
important to
promote the work
that you are
doing."
Moon told
Chinchilla the
Southern
Hemisphere could
offer models for
peace and
development,
reinvigorating
values and
morals in
capitalism.
Chinchilla
answered that
she knew the
importance of
values in
solving current
global social
problems.
"Costa Rica has
done so much to
provide
innovative
leadership in
the world," Moon
said. "Let's
work together to
continue this
great tradition
and help build
models of peace
around the
world."
The Global Peace
Festival was
founded by Hyun
Jin Moon, son of
Unification
Church founder
Sun Myung Moon,
who founded News
World
Communications
Inc., which owns
United Press
International.
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