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10 September - Peace Event in Istanbul
Leg three
"In the morning, after breakfast, we immediately went for site-seeing in Istanbul. We started with Sultan Ahmed Mosque, better known as the Blue Mosque, then we visited Topkapi palace still under restoration. After that we visited the Hagia Sophia Museum. It is impossible to say which one of these three monuments is the most beautiful and we did not know where to look in those astonishing places.
We had lunch in the city, and we met back in the hotel at 2:00 PM for a conversation with leg 4 participants about experiences and expectations and handheld the official sailors uniform of the Peace Cruise. At 4:00 we had to be in the Olympic House to participate in a debate with different youth organisations on the issue of spreading peace and reconciliation and of responding to humanitarian disasters.The formal reception and speeches of different authorities took place after that. We gave to leg 4 our pet (a parrot called Pea-Green) symbolising the spirit of the cruise, the statue of king TUT, the UNESCO flag, we also gave Zenon statue to the mayor of the city. After that we returned to the hotel to have dinner, then we had a free time to enjoy Istanbul at night and the occasion to celebrate the birthday of one of the participants."
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Peace Sailors of leg three sign the Manifesto 2000 produced by a group of Nobel Peace Prize laureates on the occasion of the International Year for the Culture of Peace. |
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The statue of king Tutankhamon offered by the Egyptian Peace Sailors at the start of the Peace Cruise is given by Rwada Mohamed (YAPD, Egypt), Ahmed Aly Mohamed and Amged Mohamed (Scout, Egypt) to Hoda (YAPD, Egypt) and Sherief (Scout, Egypt).
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Workshop at the Olympic House during the round-table on the role of youth organisations in the promotion of Peace and Reconciliation and in situations of humanitarian emergencies. |
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