UN General Assembly
2013

of international alliances, our nations are confronted with a choice of society, a choice of life. Our people have to decide whether they accept to live in a world of fear and crime: a world in which differences are perceived as threats and minorities as punching bags; a world in which opponents are faced with selective justice or beatings; a world that we in our region all know very well, as do those in some other regions of the world, since this is the world from which we originate. The Eurasian Union is both our recent past and the future shaped for us by some ex-KGB officers in Moscow. On the opposite side, our revived traditions and our centuries-old aspirations have led us towards another world called Europe. European societies are far from perfect — we all know that. There too, one can have fears, doubts, angers, hatreds and social inequality. But there, at the same time, meritocracy prevails over nepotism, tolerance is a fundamental of public life and current opponents are the future ministers, and not prisoners to