The Universal Esperanto Association ("UEA") was founded in 1908 as an organization of individual Esperantists. Currently UEA is the largest international organization for Esperanto speakers and has members in 117 countries. UEA works not only to promote Esperanto, but to stimulate discussion of the world language problem and to call attention to the necessity of equality among languages. Its statute lists the following four goals: 1. to promote the use of the international language Esperanto; 2. to act for the solution of the language problem in international relations and to facilitate international communication; 3. to encourage all types of spiritual and material relations among people, irrespective of differences of nationality, race, sex, religion, politics, or language; 4. to nurture among its members a strong sense of solidarity, and to develop in them understanding and respect for other peoples.  Esperanto is a language created to facilitate communication amongst people from different countries. In practical use for more than a hundred years, Esperanto has proved to be a genuinely living language, capable of expressing all facets of human thought. UEA members are natural ambassadors of the ideas of international peace and of the Linguistic Human Rights of all the peoples (whether large or small).  For more information: Universala Esperanto-Asocio, Nieuwe Binnenweg 176, 3015 BJ Rotterdam, Nederlando; telefono: +31 10 436 1044; faksilo: +31 10 436 1751; email uea@inter.nl.net ; web site http://www.uea.org/

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