With notable exception, U.S. President Donald Trump didn't attend the forum. But, he vowed to preserve peace during a visit to an American cemetery in Suresnes on the western outskirts of the French capital.
"One hundred years ago, the World War One, a brutal war ended, the armistice is, for the United States, anchored in our history ...It is our duty to preserve peace for which our fighters had fought," he said.
Opening the first edition of "Forum for Peace", German Chancellor Angela Merkel said "most of the challenges today cannot be solved by one nation alone, but together. That's why we need a common approach."
"One hundred years later, we look back on this war, it makes us aware of the devastating consequences that the lack of communications and unwillingness to compromise in politics and diplomacy can have," she Added.
"The peace we have today, which sometimes seems too obvious, is far from being so and we must fight for it," she stressed.
Echoing comments of Europe's main two leaders, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the audience that "multilateralism is no longer just a hope, it is more than ever a necessity".
"Unless we have a multilateral system, the risk will be that we go back to relations based on strength only, and a spiral of budding conflict," he said.
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