I salute the summit of peace and coexistence between His Eminence Imam Al-Sistani and His Holiness Pope Francis. You have created a historic wave towards the values ​​of goodness, love, and peace. I congratulate the government on considering the sixth of March as an Iraqi national day for tolerance and coexistence, to employ this wave in the service of strengthening our unity and our common destiny.

The good of peoples, the security of states, the prosperity of societies, and the peace of humanity need the tolerant values ​​of heaven and the centrality of spirit, morals, and ideals in our lives as human beings, and they need to give priority to the approach of moderation, dialogue, acceptance of others, and legitimate realization of interests.

Humanity has paid and is still paying dearly for security, peace, and prosperity as a result of wars, occupations, imbalance of justice, widespread hatred, discrimination and misappropriation of rights. Tyrants, despots, and perpetrators have defiled the name of the Great God and destroyed the unity of humanity by the torrent of authoritarian instincts and the outpouring of domination greed.

The sovereignty of the state and the primacy of its approach and objectives is the project that guarantees the achievement of justice, equality, and security for all citizens without discrimination or confiscation of the rights, freedoms, and legitimate aspirations of all nationalities, religions, and sects of Iraq. All the projects of terrorism, violence, imposing will, and bullying society and the state cannot achieve peace, coexistence and prosperity. Citizenship, democracy, and coexistence need a state, as there is nothing outside the state except chaos, injustice, and alienation.

Political leaders should be aware of the lesson from the peace summit between the two symbol of coexistence and love in Najaf. Leaders and elites must break down the walls of sectarianism, corruption, and injustice, and they must give priority to the state and the project of its unity, security, and sovereignty as a national framework that guarantees the achievement of the interests of all. The powers of the region and the world must realize that what they cannot achieve with peace and cooperation will not be gained with war, conspiracy, and manipulation of peoples.