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Presecv:ng the

decided to make it in glass.
The sculpture - on the one

hand, it should be very fragile
and on the other it should
represent stability great

Wedonot know ex0ctlyif it's, enough to maintain peace and

the first official gift of the development.
Russian Federation or not.
However, what is important is The whole idea ofnot doing it
that this is a gift from our in bronze but in glass was to

coun'J, and that the demonstrate the fragility of
Academy has contributed the world, and globalization
both intellectually and in the in general.
makmg of the sculpture, "Preserving Peace for Future
which is made of glass. The The sculpture was first Generations". This is a com-
On 12th February a
factory that made it is headed produced in miniahires. They mon concern for humankind,
unique glass scuiptuce,
by a fellow academician. were made by one of the but it is also one of the main
Preserving Peace fov the
biggest glass manufactures in focuses of the activities of the
Future Generations, was
a way of Russia, and later the full-scale United Nations, as well as the
pvesented to the United
Russian version was produced. main concem as of the
Nations Office tn Geneva
Academy.
Minister
The one here at the Palais des
Russian
I would like to formulate it a Nations was first showninthe you fe![ us
Federation, Sergei V.
slightly differently. We are Academy'sheadquartersin something a!yout the

Lavcov.
talking not about promoting Moscow, where we gathered Academy?
the sculptor perse. We are tal- people's opinions to see how It was created 17 years ago,
This gift was produced
king about promoting the it was accepted by the public and it's an open type of NGO
with the assistance of the
intellectual contribution ofthe in general. with some 18,000 members.
)nfernational
Russian Federation, from the The majority of the members
! n fo r m a t iz at f o n

idea of the sculphire to the We wanted to lmow people's are connected to science and
high quality of the impressions when they work with all kinds of
production itself. Altogether it observed it. The Academy scientific projects. The most
took 6 years to make the received a lot of replies, and important task of all these

sculpture you see here today, not siuprisingly most people people is to actively explain
and it has not been m easy emphasized the intellectual ofthe globalizationprocesses.
thing. It is the result of the contribution to create a better
work of manypeople overthe. 'understanding among Q: Could you
years. civilizations. The United this is a kind
Nations is the best promoter tank?
The whole idea behind it is of this whole idea of unders-
the globalization of the tanding, and, that is the reason I would not use tbis term, for

world's information space - why the United Nations is so the tbink-thank as cuirently
Q: What is the reason for
the idea of the Sputnik in important for us. conceived in the Russian
your corning to Geneva
orbit, and other issues such as Federation is different from
today?
international terrorism, Th6 name of the sculphire is the European conception.
I'm very pleased that my visit
to Geneva coincided with this
important event. Today, the
Minister of ForeignAffairs of
the Russian Federation, Mr.
Sergey Lavroy, willpresentto
the Palais des Nations a
sculpture which is the work of
one of the members of our
academy, the Russian sculptor
Gregory Pototsky.
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