Coexistence, mutual respect emphasized in president's speech

The concepts of mutual respect and coexistence among civilizations, highlighted by President Xi Jinping at the Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations, received positive feedback from participants.

In his keynote speech made at the opening of the conference on Wednesday morning, Xi said that exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations should be conducted in a reciprocal and equal manner, and should also be diversified and multidirectional. He also encouraged that civilizations around the world be allowed to fully bloom.

Oraib Moh'd Raja Mohammad Alrantawi, founder and director general of the Al Quds Center for Political Studies, said he considered the most important point in the speech to be the notion of the equality of civilizations.