Walesa calls for 'secular ten commandments' at Nobel Peace Summit

Lech Walesa at Nobel Peace Summit in Warsaw: photo - PAP/Jacek Turczyk

The 13th annual gathering of Nobel Peace Prize winners at the Palace of Culture and Science is being attended by several past winners of the award, including former prime minister of South Africa F. W. de Klerk.

Former leader of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev was scheduled to be at the summit on its opening day, though ill health prevented him from attending. It is unsure whether he will be at events on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The Dalai Lama, another former prize winner, is scheduled to attend the summit on Tuesday.

Actress Sharon Stone, who will be presented with a special award for her work combating HIV/AIDS on Wednesday was at the opening day of the conference, however, and visited the newly built Museum of the History of Polish Jews earlier in the day.

Sharon Stone in Warsaw: photo - PAP/Jacek Turczyk

Lech Walesa said at the one of the opening sessions of the summit that "the world must agree on common values - a secular ten commandments" and advocated the UN security council as a "global government and NATO a global defence ministry".

"Our problems are not so difficult," the 1983 peace prize winner told the delegates, which included Warsaw mayor Hanna Gronkikewicz-Waltz and speaker of parliament Ewa Kopacz. (pg)