Vice-Minister of the Iraqi Ministry of Culture

FAWZI AL-ATROSHI (Vice-Minister of the Iraqi Ministry of Culture): Chinese people and Iraqi people have developed a friendly historical relationship during the time-honored civilizing process. We hope that the two sides will set up a culturally cooperative partnership after this forum, and push their historical relationship constantly forward. The word "civilization", in theory and in practice, calls for the realization of world security and peace. In the historical moment when the gap of geographical distance has been bridged, the world has been turned into a multiplex but unified global village, and various identities have been integrated, human development has become a cultural appeal with the requirement of a spirit that conforms to world changes and complies with the cultural tides of our times.