Lech Walesa

w sensitivity to the potential costs of conflict and seek compromise. The art of self-control and of wise compromise, embodied by Nobel Prize winners Lech Walesa and Nelson Mandela, are worth promoting. However, this approach is not promoted often enough in the context of efforts for peaceful conflict resoluti

nd towards enhancement of multilateral institutions, including the United Nations and its system. It was in this spirit that the President of Poland, Lech Walesa, spoke at San Francisco last June when he referred to the Organization’s shortcomings in critical terms. Poland is not only playing its full role in

e of peace-keeping and peace-management in Europe was recently envisaged by the President of the Republic of Poland and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Mr. Lech Walesa, in his address to the Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia on 17 September 1991. This broader approach serves the aims of the United Nations and shoul

now the meaning of freedom than those who have been arrested or beaten or imprisoned or exiled because of what they said. A single man speaking out—a Lech Walesa, for example—is more dangerous than an armored division. 202. All of us here, whether we arrived after a short one-hour flight, as I did, or came fro