Jan Eliasson, President of the 60th Session of United Nations’ General Assembly, who is the senior ranking officer of the United Nations, addressed the assembly. President Eliasson is the former Sweden Ambassador to the United States and Swedish Permanent Representative to the United Nations. Coincidently, President Eliasson is from the same town in Sweden as our own Rotary International President. President Eliasson stated that he was a recipient of the Rotary High School Exchange Program, and studied for one year in Indiana. During that time, he addressed more than 50 Rotary clubs and one unforgettable Indiana Ladies Church group.During his talk, he suggested that we must remember, “There is a world outside of Verona”, as written in Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”. To show that, “We must be engaged not only in our local and national scenes but also internationally”. We need to reach the moment in history when we all understand that good and effective international cooperation is indeed in our national interest. That we can say that we truly internationalist and that is why we love our country. ”We all need to show the world that we have international solutions for international problems. YIR, tm
