Main priorities of the I Congress:

- statement of peace, concord and tolerance as stable principles of human existence;
- achievement of mutual respect and tolerance between religions, confessions, nations and ethnoses;
- oppositions to trials to use religious senses of people for escalation of conflicts and military actions.

Political tasks of the I Congress:

-  strengthening of traditions of interfaith and interconfessional dialogue in form of interfaith congresses;
- establishment of continuously acting agency of the Congress for coordinated, objective and competent preparation of ideology and concept of future congresses;
- establishment of Secretariat of the Congress located in the Republic of Kazakhstan.     

The following theses were defined as the subject of the Congress:

-  every human shall have possibility to follow its religious views;
- religious postulates and differences between religions shall not be used to justify violence, cause hate and discord;

Dear leaders and representatives of World and national traditional religions!

Today the ancient Kazakh land is honored to gather the leaders and high representatives of World and national traditional religions from around the globe to engage in dialogue between civilizations and religions.

Greeting you on Kazakhstan's land, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to you for responding to our invitation and gathering here together.

I am grateful to our superior Muslim persons such as Supreme Imam Al Azhar Sheik Muhammad Sayed Tantawy, Secretary-General of World Islamic League Sheik Abdullah bin Abdul Mohsin Al-Turki and representatives of other Muslim organizations. We highly appreciate your participation in the Congress.

I express my deep gratitude to His Holiness Roman Pope John Paul II for his high attention and support to the Congress.

I am grateful to His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexis II for his support to our Congress.
I would like to thank the leaders of Judaism, first of all, Jonah Metzger, for their participation in the Congress at high level.

Recognizing the right of each person for free choice, expression and confession of own religion,

Considering the interfaith dialogue as one of the most important instrument of the maintenance of peace and harmony among peoples and nations,

Supporting the efforts of United Nations, other concerned international and religious organizations, and also governments, non-governmental and civil society organizations for the advancement of dialogue among civilizations,

Confirming the importance of religions for prosperity of all mankind,

Denouncing the wrong presentation of religions and wrong usage of differences among religions as achievement methods of egoistic, destructive and violent aims,

Realizing

• The decreasing degree of respect to the gift of human's life and the dignity of each person,
• The serious calls of the global stability, created by poverty, hunger, sicknesses, immorality, and also by limitation of access to the clean water and health protection,
• The using of oppression, cruelty and violence as main instruments of disputes solving,
• The ecological crises, in which world is existing, with threatening  consequences for present and future generations,

Declare:

Dear members and guests of the Congress!

The days of our Forum, our joint meetings went as a short moment. They were pleasant and fruitful. We and you made another one important step on the way of consolidation of harmony and establishment of dialogue's practice among civilizations, religions, countries and peoples.

The results of our conversations and discussions with all convincingness demonstrated that the idea of cooperation in the name of future, in the name of peaceful and worthy life for peoples of different religions and nations has right for life.

The variety is not disadvantage, visa versa, it's an invaluable gift from God, because of which the present mutual enrichment, real development are taking place. Each people have unique, with its inherent traditions, history and way of thinking. Everyone contributes his own special melody in the polyphony of spiritual culture of mankind.

I want to concentrate your attention on the following problem such as the growth of number and influence of all sorts of pseudo religious associations. They exist practically in every country and mainly are parasitic on existing difficulties in the modern world.