Making a direct connection (excerpts from statements by UN Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar).

The experience of the United Nations, as well as the call of its Charter, is that the struggle for peace, decent lives, human rights and human dignity is everyone's work. The challenges . . . are so great that nothing less than the collective effort of all of us will be enough to meet them. To create the will to make that effort, we need to know each other, to explore and use what we share, and to understand the reality of our similarities and differences. You have already gone a long way, in that necessary commulnication. The culture of international youth, which is...