Dear Monica, With regret, after years of communication with you since 2006, we have to state the following. Your mentor response, ignoring our constructive criticism in the interest of peace and harmony, non-cooperation with the dissidents (you ignored the GHA collective letter of March 14 on 2 pages with detailed proposals of cooperation), your closeness and intolerance to another view, forcing us to recognize that you established in Committee of Religious NGOs at the UN personal dictatorship. We have not seen a single collective decision of your Committee. You trample the basic norms of democracy and freedom of speech. Harmony is incompatible with dictatorship, anti-democracy and the suppression of freedom of speech. Therefore, we stop contact with you and exclude you from the GHA mailing list. But we keep hope for your self-critical understanding with help of God. With love, best wishes to your inner harmony, without which peace can not prevail on Earth, Leo Dr Leo Semashko: State Councillor of St. Petersburg, Philosopher, Sociologist and Peacemaker from Harmony; Director: Tetrasociology Public Institute, Russia; Founding President, Global Harmony Association (GHA); Director, GHA Website "Peace from Harmony": www.peacefromharmony.org World Interfaith Harmony Project on the ABC of Harmony Base: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=541; GHA Program Book, The ABC of Harmony: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=478; P/Web page: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=253; Address: 7/4-42 Ho-Shi-Min Street, St. Petersburg 194356, Russia Phone: 7 (812) 597-65-71; Skype: leo.semahko Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/leo.semashko?ref=tn_tnmn PS. Your letter and our response to it are published together with the GHA Open Letter: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=576. It is our freedom of speech, openness and transparency. Everyone can see our arguments, our facts and our conclusions from them. ----- Original Message ----- From: MBWillard@xxxxxxx, MBWillard@xxxxxxx To: leo.semashko@xxxxxxxxx Sent: 16 мая 2013 г., 17:53:56 Subject: GHA Open Letter to the World's Communities of Interfaith Harmony about Di... Dear Leo, I am not pleased with this correspondence and want no association with it. I strongly object to even being listed as a recipient of this bitter correspondence. I am surprised and disappointed that you raced to confrontation as you are working to create harmony and cooperation. Please do not ever use my name, title or email on correspondence like this to email lists, newspapers and to especially to Missions and Governments. You are accusing "Discrimination, lack of transparency and closeness of the Competition for prizes of the UN World Interfaith Harmony Week. " From my perspective, you submitted an unsolicited project idea that you expected the King of Jordan to support. The process for developing and presenting any proposal needs to meet the objectives of both or all parties. From my experience, it is rare that any group to just accepts a proposal from another group that they do not know. First, Although you mention some problems with ongoing projects and international organizations not having access to listing projects. This can be addressed in other ways. An attacking headline does not build cooperation or even open a door to invite conversation. Did it ever cross your mind to have the various GHA projects lists activities from all the countries you say are promoting WIHW? This could have given GHA even more publicity on the website and possibly caught the interest of the organizers to get to know the organization. Building harmony begins with looking at ourselves and seeing how we can be better partners and listeners. It doesn't start with imposing ideas, projects and expectations on others. From my perspective, you need to build a working relationship before you ask for the other to take your idea and pay for a conference! I think no response was a kind way of dealing with your proposal. May Peace Prevail on Earth, Monica __________ Monica Willard 631-697-7972 United Religions Initiative United Nations NGO Representative Committee of Religious NGOs at the United Nations, President International Day of Peace (Sept 21) NGO Committee ,Co-Chair In a message dated 5/15/2013 7:38:37 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, leo.semashko@xxxxxxxxx writes: Dear interfaith harmony friends, Please, find in attachment the GHA Open Letter to the World's Communities of Interfaith Harmony about Discrimination, lack of transparency and closeness of the Competition for prizes of the UN World Interfaith Harmony Week. Please, feel yourself free to send this letter to any newspaper, TV and social networks as it is in the GHA interests protesting against GHA and others NGO discrimination. Thank you. With love, best harmony wishes, Dr Leo Semashko: State Councillor of St. Petersburg, Philosopher, Sociologist and Peacemaker from Harmony; Director: Tetrasociology Public Institute, Russia; Founding President, Global Harmony Association (GHA); Director, GHA Website "Peace from Harmony": www.peacefromharmony.org World Interfaith Harmony Project on the ABC of Harmony Base: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=541; GHA Program Book, The ABC of Harmony: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=478; P/Web page: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=253; Address: 7/4-42 Ho-Shi-Min Street, St. Petersburg 194356, Russia Phone: 7 (812) 597-65-71; Skype: leo.semahko Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/leo.semashko?ref=tn_tnmn