What a joy it was to see my old friend, former President Michael Gorbachev again last Sunday, October 25, 2009. We go a long way back, I have for instance been chairman of his organization ‘International Trust for Children’s Healthcare’.
I was invited to have lunch with him at the Hermitage in Amsterdam. His first remarks were that I had grown grayer…
He was interested in my activities in South Africa and we talked about the growing HIV/AIDS problems in his country.
He was accompanied by two old friends from the past; his personal assistance and translator Pavel and Alexander Likhotal, President and CEO of Green Cross International, an organization created by Gorbachev in 1993.
Pictures:
1. With Michael Gorbachev in Amsterdam on October 25, 2009
2. 12 years earlier at a press conference in Wallingford Connecticut, USA after being appointed Chairman of Michael Gorbachev’s International Trust for Children’s Healthcare
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