"POLITICS: A Bridge Over Troubled Waters By Haider Rizvi UNITED NATIONS, Dec 19 (IPS) - Key political figures from the West and the Muslim world, as well as the outgoing U.N. chief Kofi Annan, urged the international community Monday to seriously examine ways to promote greater dialogue among civilisations and cultures. 'It is not enough to publish an insightful report, and applaud great ideas, unless then we do something about them,' Annan said at the General Assembly's informal discussion on a U.N.-sponsored report to advance an 'Alliance of Civilisations'. The report, which was launched in Turkey last month, stresses that the growing divide between the predominantly Christian West and Muslim societies is not religious or cultural, but essentially political in nature."
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