The process never ends. As soon as one issue is resolved, others arise to take its place. What can be developed, however, is a mechanism which allows the states of a given region to deal with issues as they arise without recourse to the threat of violence. In the final analysis, the outcome of the report can be summarized as follows. As regards the means of forming a security regime, the group agreed that further progress in the Middle East peace process would create a suitable political climate for the consideration of a regional security regime.
Cooperative security is the only possibly basis for such a regime in the Middle East.
This will require the creation of a set of guiding principles of conduct in the region. Attempts to create a Middle East security regime must stress the revolutionary aspects of this process. The process should leave a seat at the table for others to join when they are ready. Latecomers, however, will have to accept decisions that have already been made. The creation of a zone free of weapons of mass destruction, the group felt, should be a central objective for any regional security regime.