It is a treasure which should be in the very core of the current cultural and political international debates. We are grateful to Minister Tarja Halonen of Finland and to Minister Bronislaw Geremek of Poland who did not forget the Roma Nation. Minister Geremek said in his speech here that the need for defending human rights does not have an end when democracy prevails. That is true, such as it is true that there cannot be human rights out of democracy, democratic institutions, rule of law. Racism is something which belongs to the soul and the mind of each and every human being.
Diversities still produce fears.
The only solution is the implementation of Right and Law, and of international and transnational political and juridical institutions. Racism has always come out of inadequacy of rules and institutions toward human needs and changes. It is of specific interest of the UN Community exploiting the political and cultural treasure coming from Gypsies. It is because of this interest that we ask the UN Community and States to help themselves, while helping Roma Nation to create Gypsy schools wherever Gypsies live. It is for the sake of You that the future new leading class of Gypsies should be helped to grow-up.