"We seem to lack the will to be a real political and economic community."

It is not just an economic community, but above all an association of free countries and their citizens, who share certain values in common.

Thus, he said, there did not have to be one deadline to create the economic community.

Over the past several years, they have begun to integrate themselves into the global economic community.

The processes through which Japan is becoming a key member of the international economic community continued into the 1990s.

Their educational experience is enriched by contact with members of the local economic community.

They reflect the confidence in a particular economy and the international economic community is affected by them.

"The international community is not just an economic community," the secretary said.

The themes mirror the critical challenges of the international economic community.

Not one of the republics is ready to join the world economic community on its own, except as a charity case.

The twenty-first century will become the era of the truly global economic community.

European Economic Community is established with a common commercial policy in 1958.

Asean has said it will establish an economic community by 2020.

To continue that march, to consolidate democracy and join the economic community, we need help from the West.

A North American parliament and economic community should be established.

Among the ideas they are likely to discuss is an economic community outside the current all-union structures.

"In the European economic community, that's what they do."

And he emphasized that the economic community was the necessary prelude to any hope for a political union of the republics.

Ten of the republics said Friday that they had agreed in principle to sign a new charter for an economic community.

Most economic community projects are designed at creating some sort of economic autonomy.

The agreement, he said, also represents "dramatic progress for Vietnam in its integration into the global economic community."

It was known as the European Economic Community before 1993.

These initiatives may be seen as a first step towards the creation of a region-wide economic community.

The event also exposed some weaknesses within the West African economic community.

A similar project has been proposed for the European Economic Community.