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POLAND: Lech Walesa offers to write a secular version of the "Ten Commandments"

 

This is a statement that has not gone unnoticed, Monday, Oct. 21, Warsaw (Poland). "We need as quickly as possible to agree on common values ​​of all religions, a kind of Ten Commandments lay on which to build the world of tomorrow," said the old pre , devout Catholic and Polish President Lech Walesa, in his speech inaugurating a three-day summit bringing together the Nobel Peace Prize.

Thirty years after receiving the Nobel, the historic leader of the Polish trade union Solidarity said that once made the Decalogue, the international community must agree on the economic system world of tomorrow. "It certainly will not be communism or capitalism as we have today," said one who at the time had instructed his wife, Danuta, re , cupérer his award on his behalf in Oslo for fear of not being able to return to Poland, then under communist dictatorship.

Lech Walesa, 70, did not give concrete examples of what could be the new precepts. Ten Commandments are central in the Old Testament, and are also included in the New Testament

"A united Europe with common values" Former electrician shipyards of Gdansk in northern Poland, had already mentioned this idea in an interview in the press Germany last month. He argued in particular for a "united Europe with common values" and proposed a "Decalogue thought by believers of all religions, close to the values ​​atheists."

Participants in the summit are including Iranian lawyer Shirin Ebadi, the Dalai Lama and the Irish Betty Williams. Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, the initiator of the tops of Nobel Peace Prize in 2000, is not finally come to Warsaw. At the summit, the American actress Sharon Stone must receive a "Peace Prize" (Peace Summit Award) for his fight against AIDS.

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