The miasma of the tragedy in Rwanda can infect other regions if the problem of refugees and displaced persons is not very rapidly and correctly settled.

First, we need urgently to implement the plans of action that have already been agreed upon to uplift the poorest among the developing countries from the miasma of despondency.

It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear.

With a lofty vantage point which transforms the obnoxious miasmas of opportunistic or circumstantial analysis, he reminded us, in an oratorical flourish which demonstrates his assiduous frequentation of the Enlightenment (Aufklärung), the diachronic links between the commitments of the past and the challenges of today and the responsibilities which are specific to us in the present weft of tangible action - responsibilities which are at once collective and individual.