SAT’s Seventieth Congress, held between August 2nd and 7th 1997 in Augsburg (Germany), in which 133 people from 17 countries took part:
INVITES Esperanto associations to make thier aims known by the European MPs from progressist parties,
EXPRESSES their solidarity to the Algerian People, especially to the women, the victims of a terrible integrism. SAT has published, as a token of solidarity, the book Vualo de l’ silento (the veil of silence), written by the Algerian lady Yura,
CONDEMNS the massacres which have happened in Democratic Congo due to ethnic causes.
ASSERTS that the Palestinian People has the right to have their own state to live in peace with Israel, whose colonisation politics is to be condemned.
REJECTS choosing between the liberalism based system and that based on a totalitarian statatism, but it is to be favoured the experience to create a social and human economy, as it is done, for example, by the group L.I.S. (Local Interchanges System),
REALISES that unemployment grows and grows all over the world, and that the solutions which stated have attempted so far have a negative effect from the point of view of Human Rights,
INVITES all workers, from inside their associations, to use Esperanto and set up courses prone to stablishing direct contacts with workers all over the world,
FOUNDS their proposals on the principle instead of giving out misery, let’s give out the riches,
SUGGESTS an immediate reduction of the working day without a salary reduction,
REALISES that world spreading of economy leads to world spreading of social problems (and a good example of it is the conflict at the firm Renault in Vilvordo) and the international reactions of the working class.