This is for me a remarkable step forward to bring order in this development and also to have the Iraqi people themselves involved to define an economic strategy for recovery and development, |
This World Youth Day shows that Catholics are not a minority but come from all around the world, |
Twenty-five years ago, the world looked to the Gdansk Shipyard where Poles struggled for their rights and freedoms, |
We are coming to the realization that some parts of our nation will always be more disadvantaged than other regions, |
We must express the fact that we respect others but also that we do not accept violence and destruction. |
Welcome home, welcome to Germany, |
[IMF Managing Director Horst Koehler and other senior officials provided similar visions -- a world free of debt, poverty, hunger and disease, while full of economic partnership.] I am aware of the critical debate about globalization, and many questions have to be of concern to all of us, ... But I also want to be clear: if the IMF did not exist already, this would be the time to invent it. |