Global alignment

In this 60th Anniversary Year of Peace in the Pacific and Europe and the ending of World War II, it is time for past combatants to stand together in celebration of peace, with new concepts of working together as a planetary society to be discussed and savored.

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has given the 191 nations of the world six months to begin to solve the large number of problems our planet must begin to solve. Live on CNN recently Annan presented a very accurate summing up of the world's current situation and what steps must be taken to preserve and improve our collective future.

The collective intelligence of the vast majority of the world's people will need to be gathered to support what is best for the collective future of the world's people.

This is one reader of The Jakarta Post who trusts the Editor will give more coverage to the questions United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has now put forward for the world's 191 nations to answer over the next six months.

And at the forthcoming conference in Bandung where representatives of almost half those 191 nations will gather, perhaps Indonesia can play as important a role as it did in 1955 in helping facilitate a new concept of global alignment.

GREG WARNER, Jakarta