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The XXI century will be a сentury either of total all-embracing crisis or of moral and spiritual healing that will reinvigorate humankind. It is my conviction that all of us - all reasonable political leaders, all spiritual and ideological movements, all  faiths - must help in this transition to a triumph of humanism and justice, in making the XXI century a century of a new human renaissance.
 

     
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12 September 2008

Letter by Jack F. Matlock Jr., former US Ambassador to the Soviet Union, to the Gorbachev Foundation

     I understand that President Gorbachev will be speaking in Philadelphia on September 17 when he receives an award.  Unfortunately, I will be unable to attend the ceremony because of a commitment in California that day.

 

     We are appalled at the way the press is handling the current confrontation between Georgia and Russia.  President Gorbachev's interviews and op-ed articles have been important in bringing forward attention to the events of 1990-91, which lie at the root of much that has happened. 

 

     I hope we can all work together to bring some sanity to the current international situation. Just when I had the feeling that we could soon move in the right direction on the nuclear issues, the situation in Georgia has intruded to make that difficult.