Closing session [Marino Busdachin]

Abstract

First of all I wish to thank our Maltese friends at the Foundation for International Studies for having organized, together with us, this conference. I particularly wish to thank the Prime Minister, Alfred Sant, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, who is with us today, George Vella, who, together with the Rector of the University, Roger Ellul Micallef and the European Commissioner Emma Bonino, have kindly accepted to open our meeting. Lastly, naturally, I thank all of you for having participated and particularly for the high quality of your contributions. At the conclusion of this meeting, however, it seems important to me to stress a message comm.on in all the papers given at this conference. This is the need to be reasonable as well as to proceed with the greatest urgency. It seems to be a contradiction, a paradox. But I do not think so. [excerpt]