PR86472

JEJU, South Korea, Nov. 6, 2020 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

Organized by Jeju Peace Institute, an annual international peace forum opened

on the southern resort island of Jeju on Thursday, with a focus on ways to

shore up multilateral cooperation in tackling the coronavirus pandemic and

promoting regional security.

Photo-https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/1328390/Jeju_Forum.jpg 

The three-day Jeju Forum for Peace and Prosperity comes as the COVID-19 crisis

has brought home the pressing need for global cooperation, which has been

eroded by an intensifying Sino-U.S. rivalry, as well as emergent protectionism,

nationalism and unilateralism in some quarters of the world.

Under the main theme of "Reinventing Multilateral Cooperation: Pandemic and

Humane Security", the forum bring together prominent figures, such as U.N.

Secretary General Antonio Guterres, his predecessor Ban Ki-moon, former U.S.

President Bill Clinton and former Singaporean Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong.

During Friday's opening ceremony, President Moon Jae-in delivered a video

keynote speech that South Korea will never give up efforts for the

denuclearization of the peninsula and establishment of permanent peace in the

region, as he underlined the need to revitalize the Korea peace process.

The forum includes various sessions designed to discuss transnational

challenges, such as the ongoing global health crisis, climate change and

cybersecurity, as well as efforts to promote regional and global cooperation in

the post-coronavirus era.

Among the sessions are two plenary meetings on Friday -- one on how to reinvent

multilateralism in the midst of the pandemic and the other on ways to turn the

current health and other crises into opportunities to foster global solidarity.

The forum also includes a set of roundtable sessions involving foreign

ambassadors in Seoul, which will discuss the changing geopolitical dynamics in

Northeast Asia, and experiences and lessons from the COVID-19 scourge.

On Saturday, an expert session will discuss the U.S.-China relations and the

Korean Peninsula following this week's presidential election. In a separate

session, experts will also discuss how to tackle the North Korean nuclear quandary.

Foreign speakers participate through video links due to COVID-19-induced

restrictions, organizers said. All key sessions are set to be streamed live

through a designated public online platform.

Since its launch in 2001, the forum has grown into a regional multilateral

dialogue platform for promoting sustainable peace and prosperity on the

peninsula and beyond.

Source Jeju Peace Institute

Image Attachments Links:

   Link: http://asianetnews.net/view-attachment?attach-id=376061 

   Caption: President Moon Jae-in delivers a video keynote speech at the Jeju Forum for

Peace and Prosperity on Nov. 6, 2020, in this photo provided by the forum.

(PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)