United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon on Tuesday said although Asia was the world?s largest continent having the biggest population and the fastest growing economy, the role of Asians in international affairs had been far less that it could have been.
Delivering the keynote at Asia Society’s 27th annual dinner gala at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York on Tuesday evening, Moon said, Asia’s contributions, for example, to the United Nations, are significant, but they could be much higher.
Moon noted in his address that there are many reasons why the continent’s role in international affairs had been less than the potential.
"We are the only continent where the original integration and common markets have not taken hold," Ban said.
"Latin Americans and North Americans dream of creating a free trade zone, a United States of the America. Europeans and the European Union speak of building a United States of Europe if I may call it. The African Union now speaks of becoming a United States of Africa," he noted.
"Why is there no United States of Asia? Then we will have three new USAs," Ban said amid laughter. Ban himself gave the answer
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