If we were to act that way, many of our problems would be reduced or vanished. Maintaining the peace and poverty reduction are fundamental goals of the international community. But war, violence and poverty are the effects of deep rooted causes. We will not honor our commitments simply by addressing these effects. What is essential is to address the causes.
Freedom is indivisible.
There will not be political freedom if all other freedoms do not exist at the same time. Throughout their lives, human beings organize themselves into societies, building families, assuring the continuity of the species, imbuing their children with shared moral values and applying their energy and talent to multiple forms of work. When this vital activity of the human family is frustrated because the possibilities that its fruits to reach the world markets are cut down, the nations weaken, are impoverished, become - easy prey to demagogy, lies, injustice, backwardiness, and sink into violence, as we have witnessed so many times throughout the past century. That is why one of the most important tasks of the United Nations in the next millennium must be to guarantee our right to create and to produce, as well as our right to offer and to sell our products. Free trade, so much talked about and so little practiced, is more necessary than ever in a planet made smaller and much more interdependent by globalization.