Deputy Chief of Mission Jeff Cellars Addresses Exchange Students

Deputy Chief of Mission Jeff Cellars
Deputy Chief of Mission Jeff Cellars

On Tuesday, April 19, Deputy Chief of Mission Jeff Cellars addressed the 11th Massachusetts – Basel-Stadt Students Exchange Program participants. The 30 American high school students came to Basel for a two-week homestay sponsored by CityBasel and Wakefield High School via a Sister City Agreement with Boston. In his remarks, Mr. Cellars stressed the significance of face-to-face interactions with people from foreign cultures that allow us to welcome strangers as guests. He emphasized that today’s leaders, facing unprecedented challenges on a global scale, must work together to solve problems they can’t address alone. In closing, Mr. Cellars called upon the students to visit more foreign countries and maintain a spirit of empathy and curiosity.