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considered AI development in all areas where the organization is not strong at present.
The importance of these development debates and programs is not the devel- opment of Amnesty International as an organization but the development of work for prisoners of conscience by human rights supporters in these areas. Our task is to harness the opposition to torture and the sympathy for prisoners of conscience wherever they are found. Such feelings surely exist as strongly in socialist and third world countries as anywhere else.
This is a challenge to the movement as a whole: to find the ways and means of harnessing our support despite the political, social, financial and other prob- lems which exist. There will be problems arising not only from economic and political differences but also from mistrust, from political attitudes and from cultural misunderstandings on all sides. It is these difficulties which provide the challenge.
A way must be found for all those who wish to do so to play their full part in the work of Amnesty International for prisoners throughout the world regardless of racial, religious or political background or belief. If we can solve that problem internally, then Amnesty International will be a greater organization, and govern- ments will be under greater pressure to put into practice the ideals which all of them profess.