The Global Council for Tolerance and Peace has signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, with the International Centre of Cultures and Religions in the Peace and Harmony Palace in Kazakhstan, with the aim of strengthening their cooperation and building international partnerships, to establish the values and culture of tolerance, reject extremism and promote preventive diplomacy.

The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque Centre, SZGMC, has presented a number of its valuable and special publications to the Museum of Peace and Harmony in Kazakhstan.

Saudi Ambassador in Jordan Khalid bin Turki Saud has shared with Sputnik his opinion that the S-300 air defense systems that Russia has delivered to Syria in light of the Il-20 crash will not help settle the Syrian crisis and reach stability in the region.

There is no ground for granting autocephaly to any Ukrainian church, as this is a desire of the Ukrainian civilian authorities, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate's Department for External Church Relations, said on Thursday.

The United Arab Emirates is a role model for tolerance and peaceful coexistence among followers of different religions and creeds, stated Dr Ali Rashid Al Nuaimi, Chairman of the World Council of Muslim Communities.

President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan has called on the international community to switch the paradigm of global thinking from confrontation to cooperation, move from forceful egoism, social nihilism and economic nationalism to a responsible search for reasonable compromises and to reverse the processes of total division, and not let it pass the point of no return.

The United Arab Emirates has set an integrated model for tolerance and peaceful coexistence among followers of different religions and creeds, stated Dr Ali Rashid Al Nuaimi, Chairman of the World Council of Muslim Communities.

The guarantors of Astana process on Syrian reconciliation are keeping in touch with the Small Group on Syria, including Egypt, France, Germany, Jordan, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin told Sputnik in an interview.