We would like to draw attention to the exceptional gesture of solidarity demonstrated to our project by the members of the Advisory Committee from the countries of the former Yugoslavia as well as by the members of the International Advisory Committee from other foreign countries. We take this opportunity to express our warmest thanks to all the friends and collaborators of our journal.

We are especially proud of the symbolic support given us by the following members of the International Advisory Committee of The Belgrade Circle who have recently visited Belgrade as guests of the journal, investing it with their international authority and reputation: Jacques Derrida (Paris), Richard Rorty (Charlottesville), Hans Magnus Enzensberger (Munchen), Chistopher Norris (Cardiff), Adam Michnik (Warsaw), Daniele Sallenave (Paris).

The editors wish to thank the following people and institutions which made the publication of The Belgrade Circle possible:

Marvin L. Stone
(Chairman and President, The International Media Fund, Washington)

also:

Sonja Licht
(Executive Director, Soros Yugoslavia Foundation, Belgrade),

Patrick Early
(formerly Director of The British Council, Belgrade),

Willem Houwen
(Executive Director, de Balie, Amsterdam),

Michael Seidenstricker
(Public Affairs Officer, USIS, Belgrade),

William Hunt
(Director Solidarity Project, Department of History, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York)

The editors of The Belgrade Circle also wish to acknowledge the encouragement they have received from the following institutions:

National Endowment for Democracy, Washington
(Executive Director, Paul McCarthy)

Westminster Foundation for Democracy, London
(Project Manager,Siobhain O'Beirne)

International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, Vienna
(Executive Director, Aaron Rhodes)

Swedish Helsinki Committee, Stockholm
(Chairman, Gerald Nagler)

Delegation of the Commision of the European Commuruties, Belgrade
(Charge d'Affaires, Aldo Cricchio)

Goethe-Institut, Belgrade
(Direktor, Peter Wolf)

Centre Culturel Francais, Belgrade
(Director, Luc Levy)

Institute for Interdisciplinary Research, Santa Monica
(Director, Oskar Gruenwald)

Alfred Mozer Stichtung - Foundation for Eastern Europe, Amsterdam
(Director, A. J. Berkvens)

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