WAYS TO PEACE AND STABILITY IN THE HORN

OF AFRICA  

BASIC PRINCIPLES

There are nearly 200 countries and over five billion people living on the planet. Countries differ in historical conditions, social systems, level of development as well as in their cultural tradition and values. There cannot and should not be a single development model, a single set of values and social system. The diversity of the world should not be an obstacle to the development of relations between countries but the sources of an impetus for them to interact with, complement and enrich one another. Every country has the right to choose a social system, development strategy and way of life suited to its own national condition.