Olympic Truce 2007 Conference at ancient Olympia (Xinhua) Updated: 2006-05-15 09:30 The International Olympic
Truce Foundation decided in Lausanne on Friday that the 2007 Olympic Truce
conference will be held at ancient Olympia, Greece's semi-official news agency
ANA-MPA said.
The joint memorandum was signed by Greek Tourism Development minister Fani
Palli-Petralia and International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge at
the meeting of the foundation.
Rogge and Petralia hold the chairman and vice-chairwoman of the foundation
respectively.
Rogge congratulated Greece for its help in distributing the concept of
the truce around the world.
Petralia said that the conference would be a "global peace event" that would
attract important figures from the world of politics, sports and education.
She added that ancient Olympia would once again become the international
center of the Olympic truce, providing an opportunity to propagate its values
and ideals.
The Greek side also presented proposals and themes for promoting the spirit
of the Olympic truce worldwide in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics.
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