World Law Day, to achieve world peace according to law is the eternal pursuit of people

September 4, the 22nd session of the World Law Conference opened in Beijing, China. The meeting was held in phases in Beijing and Shanghai, with more than 380 foreign representatives from 54 countries participating, and a total of about 1000 representatives from the Chinese delegation. In order to report the world's legal event, this newspaper, in addition to the regular reports, also opened a column in the five edition of "Interpretation of the World Law Congress" to some important issues in-depth reports, please pay attention.

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The early autumn of Beijing refreshing and pleasant, fishing platform Fangfei garden outside the green grass. On the afternoon of September 4, nearly thousands of judges, prosecutors, lawyers, legal scholars, judicial officials and Chinese and foreign journalists from all regions of the world attending the 22nd session of the World Congress of law gathered here to wish the arrival of the 2005 World Law Day  September 4). Mr. Greenberg, the first vice president of the World Association of Jurists, suggested that the rule of law and the international Harmonious society were the subject of the discussions in Beijing.

32 years ago, a non-governmental international organization aimed at helping to create "a new rule of law: the strong in the face of justice, the weak and the peaceful sustainable" was established by the law to maintain the World Peace Centre (renamed today as the "World Association of Jurists"), and thereafter, The World Law Congress was the main event held by the World Association of Jurists, and another achievement of the World Association of Jurists was the creation of the World Law Day. The First World Law Day celebration was held in the United States in 1965.

As the first honorary President of the World Legal Day, Japan's chief justice, Kisaburo Yokota, said, "The World Law Day has brought the whole society to re-examine the status of the law in the international community, and to inculcate in the people the rule of law as the ultimate guarantee of world peace", for decades, The world's legal workers are indeed adhering to this concept, so that the law in the promotion of world peace in the history of the process played a huge role. The theme proposed this year should be the further development of this idea.

Mr Greenberg, the first vice-chairman of the World Association of Jurists, is one of the most important organizers of the World Law Day event, and he is highly praised for saying in Washington's resignation speech: "We should observe the goodness and justice of the world and achieve peace and harmony with all people." He said: "The most important theme of this event is how to achieve harmony so that the people of the world can enjoy peace." According to the international situation today, this topic is the most timely and important. The World Association of Jurists has been the center of World Peace Law since its inception, it has been, and will continue to be, a legal organization for the objective achievement of peace, and I believe that the key to achieving harmony in the international community is to achieve harmony between people, and that the real peace is that people in this world choose a harmonious way to live. , this kind of harmony needs the law to carry on the norm, this is the goal which we pursue. ”

The President of the World Association of Jurists, Mr. Valerich Yev, hurried to the end of his busy business, and first appreciated the achievements of China's democratic and legal construction in recent years. On the subject of the rule of law and the international harmonious society, he said: "We are gathered in Beijing to support international peace and the rule of law, and your arrival is to follow a kind of goodwill to support social justice and world peace and the harmony of the international community, our event is significant and timely." ”

President of the Supreme People's Court of China China's chief Justice Xiao Yang's speech was poetic, passionate and more confident, he said: "World Law Day, this is a festival of global legal workers, it reminds us of the sanctity of the law, and the mandate of legal workers, this is not only a legal worker's holiday, It enables people to further examine the role of law in social life, so that people understand that the rule of law is the world peace and the harmonious international community reliable guarantee ... We meet here today to fully express our strong confidence and determination to build an international harmonious society through the rule of law ...

Macau's judiciary attaches great importance to the Conference, and the legal profession of Macao, which participates in the World Congress, has come to about 20 people. Macao Special Administrative Region Procurator-General He Shuming talked about his views on the rule of law and international Harmonious Society: "I think whether a country or the entire international community, to build a harmonious society in addition to economic factors, the most important is the rule of law, and I believe that economic factors can only solve a certain period of social stability The rule of law is an important guarantee for long-term stability. The application of legal weapons to promote the development of a harmonious society, which is a new subject brought by the global integration to the legal profession, can see the determination and confidence of the international legal community to create a harmonious society.

The Macao Commissioner for the ICAC, Mr Changyu, spoke very neatly: "The theme of building a harmonious society by law is Macao, China, and international, which is the common pursuit of our human society." From the development of the world, the more normative the laws of each country, the nearer the distance from the harmonious society. ”

Xu Hanming, Deputy Attorney-General of Hubei provincial People's Procuratorate, has discussed his own view from his own work: "To build a harmonious society, the procuratorial organ should start with 5 aspects, such as strengthening law enforcement ability, enforcing law enforcement, enforcing law enforcement service, standardizing law enforcement behavior and establishing law enforcement image, so as to realize the ”

In preparation for this event, the Supreme People's Court of Justice Pei Xianding and his colleagues have been busy for a long time, on the day of World Law Day, the reporter was very late to interview him: "The construction of a harmonious society, President Hu Jintao first proposed the development of China's goals, Today's legal colleagues in the world have put forward the idea of constructing the international harmonious society by law, which coincides with the development direction of our country, and fully shows that our country's development direction is consistent with the world trend. ”

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"By the best one or by the best law, which is more advantageous?" Aristotle, the Ancient Greek thinker, in answering the question, made it clear that "the rule of law should be better than one". Experts at the meeting pointed out that because the law is not emotional, and human nature (soul) inevitably have feelings, so the rulers do not rely on emotional factors than the emotional people are better. This explains the rationality and science of the rule of law. Although the celebration of World Law Day is short, it is a perpetual pursuit of people to "govern society according to law, realize world peace according to law and build international Harmonious society".