But there has been a price to pay for our newly liberated world.

Most of us live in a secular, liberal, disenchanted world.

It is however crucial that more specific attention be given to emancipatory education for girls in Aruba.

Diversity is a better guarantee of openness than even merit, and openness is the real hallmark of a liberal order.

A strong current of liberalism appeared in the late nineteenth century in Ottoman Syria in response to the religious despotism of Sultan Abdulhamid.

As was concluded at the 2004 seminar in Papua New Guinea, we must begin to think outside of the basket.

Let me reiterate that small, vulnerable island States like Dominica need time to adjust to the transition to a fully liberalized global trading regime.

A symmetrical peace agreement might also contribute to a new dynamic in Jordan and Egypt, namely re liberalization of society.

The path had been cleared for a vast new population of atomized entrepreneurs and laborers, freed from fealty to family and Party, to storm the marketplace with newly liberated individual energy.

To move toward a world free from fear and want that the drafters of the Charter dreamed of six decades ago, we must strengthen and further promote multilateral cooperation and dialogue, with the United Nations as the foundation.

Things in Iraq may not be as bad as the daily news of bomb attacks make events there sound but it is clear that there will be no lasting progress towards a liberal order in that country without basic security.