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Michail Gorbatschow, ehemaliger Praesident der Sowjetunion, links, und Alexander Hikhotal am Samstag, 15. November 2008 anlaesslich des 15-jaehrigen Jubilaeums von Green Cross International im Unternehmerforum Lilienberg in Ermatingen. (KEYSTONE/Ennio Leanza) Former President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, left, speaks on the side of Alexander Hikhotal on the occasion of the 15. anniversary of ecology group Green Cross International, Saturday, November 15, 2008, in Ermatingen, Switzerland. Mikhail Gorbachev is Founding President and Member of the Board of Green Cross International. The mission of Green Cross International is to help ensure a just, sustainable and secure future for all by fostering a value shift and cultivating a new sense of global interdependence and shared responsibility in humanity's relationship with nature. (KEYSTONE/Ennio Leanza)