Our ideas are advancing. The future of the East lies in the West and not vice-versa. We, therefore, have reason to be optimistic. Our economic system is far more productive, our social order more flexible and creative. Above all, our system of values corresponds to nature and the aspirations of the human being.
Nothing happens automatically, though.
Everything depends on us, on our resolve, on our cohesion, on our capacity for leadership and creativeness. This Alliance has a future, and only together with it do we have a future. Thus I see the decades ahead also under the sign of this strong and history-making association of states ensuring freedom and peace for us.