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          However, the UN cannot - and was never intended to - solve all the problems
          of the international community or to play the starring role in every political
          drama. Its major aim is to initiate, encourage and to harmonize the actions of
          States in the interests of peace, stability and the well-being of their people.


              16. The second layer comprises the transcontinental arrangements. Some
          of these, such as the Non-Aligned Movement or the Group of 77, have been in
          existence for many years. Today, the Conference on Security and Co-operation
          in  Europe  has  obtained  these dimensions.  Although  the  CSCE has at last
          proclaimed itself to be a regional organization, today it incorporates members
          not only from Europe but also from North America and Asia and covers half of
          the  Northern hemisphere.  Recently,  Japan  has  also become a member with
          observer status.  This  organization stretches from Vladivostok to Vancouver,
          from Murmansk to Malta and from Dublin to Dushanbe. The most important
          feature of the CSCE and other intercontinental organizations is that they are
          not formed on the basis of economic interests. Among CSCE members, for
          example, are the most advanced industrial nations of the world, which for the
          European Union, as well as  developing countries such as some of the Asian
          republics  of  the former  Soviet  Union.  This  is  a  positive  trend because such
          intercontinental structures may help to overcome the dangerous tendency to
          divide of the world into rich and poor, developed North and underdeveloped
          South.


              17. The third layer includes the bodies which I would call classical regional
          organizations, such as the Organization of African Unity, the Organization of
          American States, etc. Today some of these organizations, in particular the old
          ones,  are  in  the  process  of  transition and  the  search for a new role in  the
          changing international environment. This is true, for example, with regard to
          NATO which, although a ready-made mechanism for action, is still searching
          for its  new  identity. The idea of partnership for peace is a guideline  for  the
          adaptation of NATO to new realities. Of course, it is necessary to have a well-
          calculated timetable  for  its implementation.  No  less importantly, that
          partnership for peace should be outstretched not only to the East but also to
          neutral European countries which  are  in  the same  power vacuum. The
          transformed  NATO could become the  backbone  of  pan-European security,
          closely linked with the CSCE.


              18. Finally, the last layer is the subregional organizations. This layer, as well
          as that of regional organizations, is the fastest growing. ln particular, in Europe
          in recent years, a large number of new regional and sub-regional organizations

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