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Keynote speakers
The World Civil Society Forum welcomed several keynote speakers in the plenary sessions. You can access written and audio versions of the speeches.

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Keynote Speakers

SE Vladimir Petrovsky
SE Vladimir Petrovsky
Former Director-General of the UN in Geneva and President of the Disarmament Conference
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At the beginning of the XX century, the U.S. president, W. Wilson, who was one of the founding fathers of the first international organization—the League of Nations—declared that "the world must be made safe for democracy". In historical perspective, maybe more importantly, at the beginning of the XXI century, it is to say that "the world must be democratic to be safe." quote