Qatar’s Prime Minister and Minister for International Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani delivers a gap speech throughout the Doha Discussion board in Doha, Qatar, Saturday. Reuters-Yonhap
DOHA — The twenty third version of the Doha Discussion board opened Saturday within the Qatari capital, bringing collectively international leaders to debate urgent worldwide challenges below the theme “Justice in Motion: Past Guarantees to Progress.”
Qatar’s Prime Minister and Minister for International Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani delivered the opening handle, issuing a stark warning concerning the deteriorating state of worldwide safety brought on by a failure of worldwide accountability.
“As we collect immediately, our world is witnessing an unprecedented worsening of crises,” Sheikh Mohammed stated throughout the opening ceremony on the Sheraton Grand Doha Resort. He attributed this decline to “the shortage of accountability and the shortage of options.”
“This represents a direct menace to peace and safety when crises are managed with the logic of drive as a substitute of legislation, and when the aggressor stays free from any accountability,” the prime minister stated.
Established in 2000, the Doha Discussion board has change into a premier platform for international dialogue. This yr’s theme “Justice in Motion” calls on stakeholders to maneuver past rhetoric and take concrete actions to help sustainable prosperity and handle injustice.
Organizers anticipate roughly 6,000 contributors from greater than 150 international locations to attend this yr’s occasion. This marks a rise from the 2024 version, which noticed 5,204 contributors from 162 international locations.
Highlighting Qatar’s diplomatic efforts, the prime minister reiterated that mediation is central to the nation’s international coverage.
“Mediation will not be a political luxurious. It isn’t an interest-based alternative for us,” he stated. “It’s truly an method that we observe faithfully, given our perception that actual and true peace begins with participation and isolation, and with the increasing of joint areas and concentrating on divisions.”
He pointed to latest collaborative successes with companions from Norway, Spain and Switzerland, as “a real alternative to guard the security of civilians and shield their dignity and all of those communities.”
Concluding his remarks, the prime minister referred to as for a shift from rhetoric to tangible outcomes.
“The world doesn’t want extra guarantees. The world wants justice that’s practiced by everyone with out double requirements,” he stated. “It wants braveness that interprets phrases into motion.”
Invoice Gates, chair of the Gates Basis, speaks in a keynote speech throughout the opening ceremony on the Doha Discussion board in Doha, Qatar, Saturday. AFP-Yonhap
Invoice Gates highlights well being challenges, AI alternatives
In a keynote speech, Invoice Gates spoke about how expertise, local weather change and world well being are all linked.
Gates stated progress made in decreasing little one mortality over the previous 20 years, from 10 million deaths yearly to under 5 million, however added there’s a latest worrying pattern.
“Sadly, this yr marks the primary reversal on this progress,” Gates stated. “Final yr, 4.6 million youngsters died. This yr it is going to be 4.8 million.”
Nonetheless, Gates was very looking forward to the long run as he believes innovation and synthetic intelligence (AI) will assist resolve these points. He famous that the Gates Basis is funding AI corporations to know the world’s languages and it will let even the poorest folks use cellphones to speak to digital docs.
“People are downside solvers,” Gates stated. “I imagine that if we do the fitting issues, we are able to lower childhood dying in half once more, all the way down to under two p.c.”
The Korea Occasions is collaborating in Doha Discussion board as a media accomplice.
