UN General Assembly
1992

acceptance between all the peoples of the Middle East and look forward to a future characterized by sincere commitment to the process of dialogue and cooperation in the economic as well as in other fields in order to build peace. In trying today to identify possible means of reconstituting the international order, we find that regional groupings can play a unifying role, whether they follow the path of integration or confine themselves to close cooperation in the economic field, in foreign policy or in security matters.* In Western Europe, we have built and tested structures that have brought about a phenomenon quite different from the situation now prevailing in the troubled Eastern part of the continent. The need to defend democracy, the vast scope of economic development, spurred by technological progress, and the necessity of preserving the values of European culture and history, so that Europe can again play a major role in international society have led us to attach less importance to the theory and practice that nations must necessarily take the form of States. They