New Year Thoughts for 2004

Peace is the first step

The world suffered another grim year of war in which the powers of war triumphed over peace. This has caused great harm to the whole of humanity, and has encouraged expenditure on weapons and warfare, money which will no longer be available to solve our growing economic and social problems. This will be especially apparent in the fight against the high unemployment and escalating poverty in Slovakia and elsewhere.

In addition, the latest war of the US and her allies against Iraq has divided the world - into those countries supporting the war, and those against it - and this has brought about new tension and hostility between all countries and peoples of the world.

In my New Year Thoughts for 2004, I would like to wish all countries peace and happiness. Peace is the essential first step towards a normal and healthy economic and social development in war-torn regions, indeed throughout the world.

Secondly, I would like to see a new world and social order in which justice and fairness prevail, in which the people of Slovakia, and other dispossessed countries too, will be enabled to repossess their corporations and banks, taken away by international corporations by means of so-called privatisation. Only then will we be able to shake off the shackles of slavery and live as a free people.

I would like my country, Slovakia, to become a free country in a new and just EU. Slovakia should adopt the status of a neutral country that will not allow itself to take part in new wars serving the interest of international capital's world-government.

Dr. Zoltan Adorjan,League of the Slav and befriended peoples and countries, Slovakia