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Second delivery of the Letter of Peace
presented to the Secretary General of the United Nations, Boutros Boutros-Ghali
New York, January, 25th 1996
The second meeting with the Secretary General of the UN and promoters of the Letter of Peace, on 25 January 1996 in New York, was more significant still than that first meeting held the previous year. The documents of 1995, were given to him by seven year old Aina Huguet, as a delicate symbol of the new generations to whom we wished to leave a world more at peace. In the future more works for peace of the type mentioned in the Letter of Peace to the UN will be conducted.

The Secretary General in his speech, deeply valued and thanked the organisation for the work carried out by the promoters of the Letter of Peace. He said "the impressive number of companies gathered shows the degree of enthusiasm that you are known to generate towards the service of peace. Peace - he said- is too serious a problem to be entrusted only to the states of the world". He expressed his intention to continue vividly in this task and quest, opening its message to all the peoples of all continents.

Aina Huguet delivered the 1995 Report to the Secretary General of the UN, Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
 
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Reception of the Letter of Peace delegation
at the Spanish Institute of New York.
New York, 25th January, 1996

 
 
On the occasion of the delivery of the work carried out during year 1995 to the General Secretary of the UN, there took place, on the same January 25, 1996 in the evening, a reception in the Lounge Carlos IV of the Spanish Institute of New York.

Mr Jordi Cussó, Rector of the Universitas Albertiana, gave the welcome to the assistants and his presence and was grateful in the name of the promoter entities. He also expressed his wish to continue presenting the Letter of Peace in new countries, to continue spreading its content keenly, creating spaces of reflection and interdisciplinary study of the Letter of Peace content.

Mrs. Assumpta Sendra, person in charge of the Letter of  Peace in the United States, presented the act and called upon the persons who intervened; Mr Arcadio Díaz-Tejera, Canary Ombudsman expressed: "that this Letter removes many things, specially consciences and emotions". He asserted with great enthusiasm that, as a human being, he would always support to such initiative. Later on, Mrs Esther de Zavaleta, writer and member of the Consultative Committee of Top Education for Latin America and the Caribbean (CRESALC-UNESCO) intervened.

She observed that "this Letter of Peace is inspired in the humble intention of helping to think about the topic, offering foundations for one´s own thoughts. She remembered that Butros-Ghali said that peace was residing in the culture of the heart. Culture means cultivation and I believe that there, in the cultivation of man´s heart, of his aptitudes for the construction of a better world, there is a core where it is necessary to work the topic of the peace".

Immediately afterwards Dr. Alfredo Rubio, the author of the Letter of Peace, delivered a bound copy of the Letter of Peace addressed to the UN, to Mr. Fernando Aleu, President of the Spanish Institute Board of Directors. Dr. Rubio said that "this binding of the Letter of Peace that I deliver to you is written in Catalan, the language in which its first draft was written. When I have opened it, I have only seen blank pages on both sides; finally, I have seen that the text was written in the middle of the book. This Letter of Peace, which is very brief, is based on evidences. Let these blank pages are a representation of what  everyone will contribute to peace with his actions, in the light of the evidences of the Letter of  Peace".

Mr. Aleu was grateful, on behalf of the Spanish Institute, "because you have chosen this house for this act, in which I have learned very much. Moreover, the beauty of the literary images used this evening, has been dazzling. I am grateful for it because this institution and I like the good taste of the beautiful things very much. All that what has been said is a cause of happiness, of satisfaction, of wish to repeat it soon and, if it is possible, with more fervour of multitudes".

Forthwith it was offered a concert of Spanish music by the soprano Montserrat Español accompanied on the piano by Natalia Plá. The reception finished with a toast by courtesy of Codorniu.

Mr Juli Minoves, Ambassador of Andorra; Mrs. Zofia Olszowski, representative of UNESCO in New York and Mr. Juan Miguel Gonzalez-Feria, co-founder of the Universitas Albertiana, dedicated their praises and gratefulness to the Letter of Peace and encouraged its promoters to continue forward with this initiative.

Dr. Alfredo Rubio, co-author of the Letter of Peace, delivers a bound copy of this document to Dr. Fernando Aleu, President of the Spanish Institute Board of Directors.


Dr. Alfredo Rubio, co-author of the Letter of Peace, presents a bound copy of this document to Dr. Fernando Aleu, Chairman of the Board of the Spanish Institute.





 
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