Ricardo Arias Calderón
The rights of the nations [RICARDO ARIAS CALDERÓN] Couldn't we think that in the Universal Forum of the Cultures, which is due to be celebrated in the year 2004 in Barcelona, the preliminary sketch of the Declaration of the Rights and Duties of the Nations is submitted to a discussion and that with the patronage of the presents to this Forum, the discussion and approbation in the General Assembly of the United Nations is then proposed? I suggest that you should think of this challenge, for I am sure that in the next millennium the nations will take more care about themselves and so they will be more creative to preserve their identity. If the new millennium is outlined under the sign of the cultures, rather than under the sign of the economies and the politics, it is due to the fact that one of its characteristics is the resurgence of the nations in the context of the necessary human solidarity of the peoples.