Stjepan Mesic Quotes

For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.

We've advanced in the construction of a true free-trade area across South America... What's needed now is less rhetoric and more action.

In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity.

My message to the people and rulers of Pakistan is, 'As neighbours, we want peace and friendship and cooperation with you so that together we can change the face of South Asia.'

The SCO countries have been connected historically through shared commonalities, which we are constantly rejuvenating.

For too long have many of us in India imagined a future in which the country would rise, leaving the rest of the subcontinent behind. This is neither possible nor warranted.

Creating a structure for mutual prosperity requires lowering regional and transnational barriers to facilitate the flow of goods and promote people-to-people interactions.

Brazil must resume and deepen Latin American integration.

We applauded and endorsed the One Belt, One Road initiative and we are proud that together with China, we are implementing its flagship mega project - China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.

We will work constructively with China as we always have. Our futures are very much intertwined in the region.

We hope that through these trade arrangements, through collaboration in training, in manpower development, and what have you, ASEAN in, say, ten years' time, will be a very different ASEAN.

Our real interest starts with our neighbors... the future is about regional economies.

The Eurasian union is a project meant to preserve the identities of nations and the historic Eurasian community in the new century, in a new world.

The transatlantic relationship is vital for both our countries: France will remain a reliable ally of the United States. Nevertheless, ally does not mean aligned.

If Yugoslavia is to exist, it can exist only as an alliance, a confederation of independent states.

Perhaps the strongest signal of reengagement with Southeast Asia was the U.S.'s accession to the Southeast Asian Treaty of Amity and Cooperation.

We feel no isolation. But, having said that, I want to emphasise in particular that we do not want to go to extremes and abandon the European and American directions in our foreign economic cooperation.

Specifically, the U.S. holds strength. Its own context makes it a very competitive country, but I believe that if we recognize how interdependent the U.S. with its neighbors from the North and the South, we are part of NAFTA, a trade agreement.

Regional exchange can be a source of growth and development, and of enhancing good governance.

This project would not only open up venues of cooperation in the oil and gas sector between the member countries but also help bring the people of regional countries together.

It is in line with the fundamental interests of the two peoples for China and Afghanistan to strengthen a strategic and cooperative partnership, which is also conducive to regional peace, stability and development.

With the backdrop of its geostrategic location and historical ties with the Middle East, Turkey has an essential role to play for the stability, peace and social development of the region.

In Western Europe there are now only small countries—those that know it and those that don't know it yet.

We live in an interdependent world. We depend on one another for prosperity.

Grouping and mutuality of countries and peoples in the Balkans is the only road that leads to economic, national and political liberation.