Since the publication of the first number last March, we received several comments, to congratulate us, to encourage us, and of which certain case, to bring suggestions to us. In the heading "Letters to the Editor" of this number, it pleases to us to publish some letters from readers. Also let us recall that many magazines and newspapers, like "The Gazette" of Montreal, "Actualités CDN" and "Jeune Afrique" spoke in eulogistic terms about our magazine.

To train a team of professional collaborators, such remarkable talents, which achieved an extraordinary work voluntarily, did not prove easy task. As, it should be recognized as the magazine Sans Frontières would never have been carried out without the initiative of Alliance Canada-Tunisia, as well as the support and the encouragement of the givers and the expressly named advertisers on page 4 of the first number.

Of course, with a budget starting "zero" and one new team of drafting and collaborators voluntary, one had to expect some errors and imperfections in the first number. This is why, we ask you to excuse us and we ensure you that measures were taken so that this problem is not repeated.

In order to make it possible to our readers to know our intentions, it is essential here, to define our objectives and to specify our concerns.

It is true that in the of this end of century, the fulgurating development of the advanced technologies and telecommunications opened the world, at the point where the borders lost their right to exist. It is as true, as many countries, businesses people and workers benefitted from economic universalization. However, it is necessary to have the head not to realize elsewhere that the cruel reality of today obliges us to look at the other side of the medal.

It is enough to think of the volatility of the financial markets, the unemployment of the mass, the fluidity of the capital, the environmental pollution, the increase in fatal diseases, the proliferation of criminality, the rise of racism and the violence of the integrisms. For these examples, it is necessary to add the problems of the extreme poverty which affects a quarter of the humanity, and analphabetism which touches a billion of the inhabitants of this planet, to realize that the ground does not turn out badly for everyone.

We are conscious that there is not a miracle solution to solve a good part of these short-term problems, and the political leaders are not the only ones able to make. We are as conscious of the fine words and the declarations of intent do not change anything with hard realities. What we wish, it is an international solidarity, to which all those are implied who are animated by the will to improve the lot the most stripped of in the world, as well as the fate of our planet, in order to find an effective solution and fast to control universalization carefully and to build a better world.