Martigny, 25 August 2007 Dear young people and esteemed politicians, I too would like to address a word to you during your meeting dedicated to building up the future of “our” – allow me to so call it – beloved Switzerland, given that we have already journeyed a distance together. This year, the young people are the ones who gave us the possibility of adding an enriching new stage to our journey, by inviting everyone, politicians of every persuasion and office, elected officials and citizens, to together commit to choosing fraternity as the inspiring principle of politics. I would like to propose something to all of you: to make a pact, a real and true pact, between different generations in order to give an authentic spirit of community commitment to politics. A pact of mutual love between you young people, who have the capacity to believe in the actualization of great values such as universal brotherhood, peace and freedom, and who represent the Switzerland of tomorrow, and you politicians, who already work for your people, with the weight but also the wealth of your experience, and who represent what is possible to actualize today. Why not share these riches and so enhance your real capacity to remain faithful to the commitments that you will take on? I can assure you that if you have the courage to practice this way of listening and working together, you will set in motion a new way of doing politics that will open up to new ideas, which through the “osmosis” of love will be contagious. It will then be possible to bring about what we have believed and wished for together during these days. We can work for the unity of a people only if some first begin to experience it among them. I am with you and I pray to God-Love, that God whom the Fathers of your nation wanted as the guarantor of the Federal Pact, that He may help us to make of Switzerland a united community, open and helping, a living witness on the path to a united world. Chiara Lubich