Opulence and poverty are different. The ages of the ones who die in the South and the North are different. Children s diseases are different, and the hospitals and the medicines of one and others are different. The access to the learning process that permits domination of the secrets of science and letters for understanding the universe is different. And our possibilities and ways to rule our destinies are different.
Justice is still that far horizon.
But to advance towards this justice is a possible utopia. Regarding this peculiar geography, there are many affairs that we are interested in, and instead of dividing us, they unite us. Because, at the end of the century, the dreams of humanity have not ceased, nor has the fight for a better future, and hopes are increasing. Because of this we are convening the World Youth and Students Festival, to be held in the summer of 1997 in Cuba. A broad, representative and numerous group of youth, student, national, regional and international organisations wishing to continue the festival s tradition will find here a door open to their dreams.