UN General Assembly
2014

we already have another world where we all wish to speak, think and decide our own fate and to achieve peace for our peoples. A new regionalism has come to the fore. In the late 1940s and the 1950s, we saw the birth of the European Union as an experiment in the new regionalism that is admired and emulated by many throughout the world. In the 1970s and 1980s, we saw the emergence of the Organization of African Unity, an extraordinary system to organize the brotherly African continent to address the issues of development and life. Our mother Africa was one of the most suffering regions the world. Now as we embark on the twenty-first century, Latin America is taking its place. We have seen new organizations arise in Latin America. On 14 December, we will commemorate in Havana, Cuba, a heroic island and great homeland, the tenth anniversary of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas. We have assumed an important role in building a new social and economic order in defence of such major causes