Noting that globalization brings greater interrelatedness among people and increased interaction among cultures and civilizations, and encouraged by the fact that the celebration of the United Nations Year of Dialogue among Civilizations, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, has underscored that globalization is not only an economic, financial and technological process which could offer great benefit but that it also presents the challenge of preserving and celebrating the rich intellectual and cultural diversity of humankind and of civilization,
注意到全球化造成人民之间有更密切的相互关系，增进各种文化和文明之间的交往，并欣见在二十一世纪开始之际欢庆联合国不同文明对话年强调了全球化不仅是在经济、金融和技术方面可以带来巨大利益的一个进程，而且对于如何维护和弘扬人类及其文明丰富的知识和文化多样性，也是一项挑战，