Drnovsek to Social Forum: We Can Make the World a Better Place

Ljubljana/Nairobi, 22 January

President Janez Drnovsek sent a letter on Monday to participants of the 7th World Social Forum in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, saying that making the world better was no small task, although it could be achieved with faith in success.

We are here to change the world for the better, Drnovsek wrote in his letter, which director of Slovenian Jesuit Refugee Service Robin Schweiger read to the forum.
"Increasingly more people will be infected with positive thinking and will want to improve the world around themselves," Drnovsek wrote as quoted by his official website.
Positive thinking will then spread through Slovenia, neighbouring countries, Europe and its institutions, he added.
The EU will start functioning as an association of equal, well-thinking people and countries. Drnovsek believes that this will also lead the bloc to changing its "crazy agriculture policy" and switching to ecological farming.
The EU will strive for more just relations and help the third world. Selfishness will disappear, Drnovsek wrote.
According to Drnovsek vision, the EU will take on the role of moral authority and draw more and more countries and continents.
Positive thinking will also spread to America, China, India, Pakistan and Israel. In the end even the UN will start functioning as it should, Drnovsek said.
All this, said Drnovsek, will make the world a better place. People will stop destroying the climate and efforts will be made to ensure that every individual has a decent life.
Drnovsek, who was only several years ago a frequenter of the pro-globalisation Davos Economic Forum, has been critical of capitalism since he underwent a spiritual transformation that he made public in early 2006.
Among his actions aimed at countering established political practices, he set up an altruistic movement, the Movement for Justice and Development.

Drnovsek to Social Forum: We Can Make the World a Better Place

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