UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres offered 'solidarity with the Muslim community from New York to New Zealand and beyond.'
United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres visits the Islamic Cultural Center in New York to make remarks on the New Zealand attack and the need to address Islamophobia.
“Mosques and all places of prayer and contemplation should be safe havens, not sites of terror,” Guterres said.Guterres met with worshippers at the Islamic Cultural Center’s mosque in Manhattan as they gathered ahead of Friday prayers and offered “solidarity with the Muslim community from New York to New Zealand and beyond.”
Moratinos heads the UN Alliance of Civilisations, a group led by Spain and Turkey that seeks to foster better understanding between cultures and societies. Addressing a meeting in Istanbul of Muslim countries, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on the world to fight Islamophobia in the same way it fought anti-Semitism after the World War II Holocaust.
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