"A peacemaker, a calm person with conciliatory manners willing to live in good terms with everyone and to avoid conflicts, but also a person who wants to commit his life to the service of peace, and who is ready to give up his life to build it." This is the ambassador’s portrait drawn today by Benedict XVI during the presentation of the credential letters by the ambassadors of Malawi, Sweden, Sierra Leone, Iceland, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Belize, Tunisia, Kazakhstan, Bahrain and Fiji Island. "Peace," he explained, "is not only a political or military state of non-conflict; yet it also includes the overall conditions to achieve harmony and everyone’s fulfillment." "In order to be "authentic", peace cannot be separated from "justice". "Our world is hungering and thirsting for justice explained Benedict XVI and justice has not only a social and ethical importance, it does not refer only to what is just and legal. The Hebraic etymology of the word "justice" points to what is suitable. God’s justice reveals itself for its precision." "The noble art of the ambassador lies in the commitment to ‘precision’ so that the nation that is served may live in peace with other countries, but also in line with the justice that is expressed through the fairness and the solidarity of international relations." ” ” ” ” ” ” ” “
