Balgarianovinite.com “Instead of hating, let us choose to understand others. In one city, we are all connected,” Sofia Mayor Vassil Terziev said, as quoted by the press centre of the Sofia Municipality. Terziev called for tolerance, mutual respect and overcoming division during a weekend marked by numerous large-scale and diverse public events in the capital. He stressed that Sofia’s strength lies precisely in being a shared home for all its residents.
“Our city is hosting a variety of events this weekend. Wherever you have chosen to go – the Asian Festival, the Pride parade, or the March for the Family – you have made that choice in order to be among your own people,” Vassil Terziev was quoted as saying in the press release. He noted that regardless of where people chose to go, they made that choice out of a desire to be among like-minded people.
“The truth is that, regardless of whether we understand or approve of another person’s choice, no one is going to disappear. And instead of rejecting those who think differently, we can make an effort to understand them. If we cannot understand them, we can at least choose not to hate them,” the Sofia Mayor added.
“In a city, everything is connected and we are all connected,” Terziev said. According to him, the primary responsibility of institutions and society is to work together for a Sofia in which there is a place for our children as they are, with their authentic ideas, needs and dreams, and with their right to be among their own people as well.
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