The views of the various countries, and of the various industrial and political power blocs, differ too much.

The East West blocs have been replaced by North South blocs.

When Blocs Collide

This is a mission for all humankind, in which patriotic feelings and thinking in terms of power blocs have no place.

After all, natural disasters respect no territorial boundaries or power blocs calamities from nature have a studied ideological neutrality.

With the era of confrontation between two super Power blocs now in the past, that principle has taken on a new relevance.

The diminishing of the confrontation between the two power blocs gives hope for forging a consensus for a new international security order.

During that period, the Council was unable to reach decisions on any issue that invoked the rival interests of the two super Power blocs.

The ensuing cold war, with the two major ideological and military blocs in confrontation, was reflected in many countries by the establishment of totalitarian power.

Finally, there is the threat of the formation of blocs.

But I doubt it. A world divided into political blocs will become a world of trade blocs, sustained by protectionism and currency manipulation.

2. The political forces and parliamentary blocs

But it will take courage and sheer determination to tackle what is perhaps the biggest obstacle of all resistance from deeply entrenched local and provincial power blocs.

The tragedy of the struggle of two opposing blocs is finally over.

The time of rivalry between power blocs, now a thing of the past, had, with reference to Antarctica, been marked by the 1959 Washington Treaty which had permitted the demilitarization and

Within both blocs, smaller powers clustered around the superpower.

With the end of the confrontation between two super Power blocs, the goal of quot the organized common peace quot , of which President Woodrow Wilson spoke so eloquently three generations ago, presents itself.

With the dissolution of two hostile blocs, the world has become a safer place.

Interrelationships exist between large economic blocs no country can escape that reality.

37. Island developing countries had been excluded from the giant trading blocs.

quot The collapse of one of the two blocs did not solve the world apos s problems.

It is hoped that the formation of mega trading blocs will not compound these difficulties further.

The lack of coordination between the interests of blocs no longer interferes in or aggravates every international conflict.

Slow progress in finalizing the Round has led to the formation and strengthening of regional trading blocs.

The era of confrontation between ideological blocs has now given way to genuine mutual and multilateral interdependence.

Countries outside those regional blocs, particularly in Africa, must renew their efforts to promote subregional integration with a view to expanding markets, enhancing complementarities and ultimately establishing links with the large trade blocs.

Blocs are a tangible approximation, an intermediate step, to the goal of free trade, the ultimate goal of GATT.

3. The political forces and parliamentary blocs, with a view to ensuring the prompt restoration of constitutional order

Nations should avoid economic regionalism and the formation of trade blocs, which might discriminate against non member countries.

The creation of economic blocs must be interpreted as a consequence of a process of integration and liberalization of world markets.

The rivalry between the two blocs contributed to the weakening of the effectiveness of the Organization in addressing international issues.

Many large trading countries and trading blocs have adopted and begun to implement ISPM 15.

As expected, the end of the East West confrontation and the disappearance of competing blocs has proved beneficial to international relations.

Agreements on economic cooperation between members and non members of trading blocs are already being concluded, although sometimes too slowly.

Not long ago, we all thought that the conditions for peace and stability in the world had finally arrived, since the danger of a super Power military confrontation and the rivalry between the two blocs had disappeared with the end of the cold war.

The military blocs established under the pretext of the so called balance of forces during the cold war era should be dissolved.

The main economic and currency blocs clearly do not meet such preconditions today, albeit for different reasons.

Lebanon looks forward to the follow up meetings of the Brasilia summit, considering the importance of cooperation between those two important geographic blocs.

In all this we are acutely aware of the shift in world trading patterns brought on by the formation of new trading blocs.

The trend towards the formation of economic blocs among industrialized countries must not be allowed to contribute to the marginalization of developing countries.

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More immediately, the Great Depression and the subsequent compartmentalization of the world into economic blocs also worked to the advantage of the already powerful.

The conclusion of the Uruguay Round, the formation and or enlargement of trading blocs and developments in Eastern and Central Europe pose additional challenges.

But lack of understanding between nations, ideological fanaticism and the politics of force led to the world apos s polarization into two antagonistic blocs.

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