The Chief Minister recently received a courtesy call from Dada Murli, senior representative of the London-based Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University.

Dada Murli was on the Rock in connection with the United Nations Peace Day in September, and visited Peter Caruana to explain the arrangements to celebrate the international event here.

As UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan put it on the day itself last year: ‘The International Day of Peace is meant to be a day of global cease-fire, when all countries and all people stop all hostilities for the entire day. And it is a day on which people around the world observe a minute of silence at 12 noon local time. Let us pledge to do our utmost to carry out the important decisions on peace taken by last week’s 2005 World Summit.’

As before, the programme will be sponsored by The Alwani Trust. Kishin Alwani said that the Trust intends to make this an annual event in Gibraltar, and hopes that government and business offices will participate in the one-minute silence.