{"id":48441,"date":"2018-11-11T13:32:12","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T13:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=48441"},"modified":"2018-11-11T13:32:12","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T13:32:12","slug":"world-leaders-mark-100-years-since-wwi-armistice-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/world-leaders-mark-100-years-since-wwi-armistice-in-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"World leaders mark 100 years since WWI Armistice in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-48442\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/WW1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"801\" height=\"603\" \/>World leaders gathered in Paris will lead global commemorations on Sunday to mark 100 years since the end of World War I at a time of growing nationalism and diplomatic tensions.<br \/>\nAround 70 leaders including US and Russian Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will mark the centenary of the 1918 Armistice in the French capital.<br \/>\nCeremonies in New Zealand and Australia marked the start of the November 11 memorial events across the world, and huge crowds paid tribute to the more than 80,000 servicemen and women who gave their lives in the Great War.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor our tomorrows, they gave their today,\u201d Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison told people gathered at the Remembrance Day national ceremony in Canberra.<br \/>\nThe Paris commemorations, centered on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier beneath the Arc de Triomphe, are set to feature warnings about the modern-day danger of nationalism.<br \/>\n\u201cThis day is not just about remembering, but should be about a call to action,\u201d German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday after visiting the forest clearing in eastern France where the Armistice was signed.<br \/>\nMerkel will give the opening address alongside UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres at a conference called the Paris Peace Forum which will take place after a memorial service on the Champs-Elysees on Sunday morning.<br \/>\nConceived by French President Emmanuel Macron, the Forum is intended to highlight the importance of international institutions in helping resolve conflicts, avert wars and spread prosperity.<br \/>\nBritish Prime Minister Theresa May and Queen Elizabeth will attend a separate event in London.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"alignleft quote-simple \"><p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script> <!-- Automatic size Responsive --> <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1234237307185872\" data-ad-slot=\"7381563475\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins> <script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite the show of unity at the Arc de Triomphe, where school children will read out messages written by soldiers in eight languages, tensions are expected to lurk beneath the surface.<br \/>\nUS President Donald Trump, whose hard-line nationalism has badly shaken the Western alliance, arrived in Paris on Friday criticizing host Macron for being \u201cinsulting.\u201d<br \/>\nTrump took umbrage at a recent interview in which Macron talked about the need for a European army and listed the US along with Russia and China as a threat to national security.<br \/>\nThe \u201cAmerica First\u201d leader, who faced criticism on Saturday for canceling a trip to an American cemetery because of the rainy weather, will snub the Paris Peace Forum.<br \/>\nOther attendees of the memorial service and Forum include Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Canadian premier Justin Trudeau and Israel\u2019s Benyamin Netanyahu, as well as Putin.<br \/>\nWith far-right nationalist politicians coming to power from Brazil to Italy to Austria, 40-year-old centrist Macron is set to invoke the war to make the case for international cooperation.<br \/>\n\u201cWe want to make these commemorations a time to reflect on the present, not just the past, so that they have a meaning for us today,\u201d an aide to Macron said earlier this week.<br \/>\nHe will deliver a short speech during Sunday\u2019s ceremony, which organizers have made deliberately international and cross-cultural.<\/p>\n<p>The French-born Chinese-American cellist Yo-yo Ma will perform, as will West African singer Angelique Kidjo, and a European youth orchestra with a Russian conductor.<br \/>\nSome 10,000 police have been drafted in to ensure maximum security in a city repeatedly targeted by jihadists since 2015.<br \/>\nMacron is also set to speak later at UN cultural body UNESCO and at the Peace Forum.<br \/>\nThe Forum is part of the \u201cfightback\u201d against nationalism worldwide, chief organizer Justin Vaisse told AFP as he played down the significance of Trump\u2019s decision not to attend.<br \/>\n\u201cThe aim of the forum is to show that there are lots of forces in the international system \u2014 states, NGOs, foundations, intellectuals, companies \u2014 who believe we need a world of rules, an open world and a multilateral world,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">About 70 current-day nations were involved in the conflict that had six empires and colonial powers at its heart: Austria-Hungary, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and the Ottoman Empire.<br \/>\nAround 10 million soldiers are generally estimated to have been killed during the fighting and more than double that number wounded overall.<br \/>\nBetween five and 10 million civilians are estimated to have been killed.<br \/>\nIn Britain, church bells are set to ring out across the country at 11 am, at the same time as a national remembrance service at the Cenotaph in London.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, 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