This conference, occurring just days before Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's resignation, was attended by heads of state, legislators, scholars, educators, journalists and human rights activists. Its goal was to find new ways of dealing with those conflicts inherent in the transition from totalitarianism to democracy. As individuals, as communities, as nations, we are interdependent and share a collective responsibility to ensure that peoples of all countries, races and religions are guaranteed the full range of human rights that are at the heart of freedom and dignity.
Hatred leads to war.
We must disarm hatred to assure peace. Denunciation of hatred is an act of global patriotism.