Kuwait partakes in religious violence victims conference in Spain

MADRID, May 22 (KUNA) -- Spain will host tomorrow (Tuesday) the second International Conference on Victims of Ethnic and Religious Violence in the Middle East, with participation of Foreign Ministry's officials.
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy will inaugurate the two-day conference, due at the Royal Palace of El Pardo, as representatives of a total of 60 countries and 15 international organizations, along with clergymen and Middle East region's experts will group for the event.
This conference aims at offering aid and protection to victims of religious and ethnic violence in the Middle East.
First religious violence conference in Middle East was held in Paris in September, 2015.
It also aims at setting a road map to work at the humanitarian, political, and judicial levels as well as support minorities suffering from murder and torture by the so called Islamic State (IS).
The conference will also work on protecting the cultural, ethnic and religious variety in the Middle East, being a precious cultural heritage.
The humanitarian aspect includes meeting the needs of people, and allowing voluntarily, and permanent return for the refugees and displaced.
The political aspect touched on enhancing comprehensive resolution to promote respecting human rights and cultural and religious variety in the Middle East.
The judicial aspect will discuss putting a set of punishments to perpetrators committing crimes on religious, ethnic or theological background, as some of them are considered war crime or humanitarian crimes.
Paris conference which was held upon French and Jordanian partnership resulted in dedicating an open session in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on March 27 of the year 2015, dedicated to the victims of religious and ethnic violence in the Middle East. (end) hnd.mk.lb