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My Green Cross
Gorbachev,Mikhail
Gorbachev,Mikhail
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Many readers may be asking why it was necessary to found yet another NGO – Green Cross International – dedicated to environmental problems and the struggle for peace and against poverty, when a number of such organizations already exist. In my view, Green Cross International is original in that we have made connections between the main challenges facing our time, and that we not only undertake practical projects but also maintain a permanent dialogue. This dialogue is carried on between well-known politicians, artists and scientists, representatives of various religions, ecologists and leaders of NGOs on the one hand, and ordinary citizens on the other. We are, after all, living in a new era with its own philosophical stamp and new ethical ideas. The organization was founded during the Earth Summit attended by heads of government in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. A parallel event was a non-government forum of parliamentarians and cultural activists during which the idea of founding a worldwide NGO called Green Cross International was expressed. I had suggested this title at an international meeting in Moscow in 1987 and it had evidently stuck in someone’s mind.
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2006
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