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In a press statement to JANA, the Leader of the Revolution
said today, the idea of true cooperation among countries
overlooking the same sea, like the Mediterranean Sea,
similar to President Sarkozy's initiative is worth
supporting and that he is very enthusiastic to it.
However, now the idea seems to be miscarried or dissolved
and could be heading in the same path of the Barcelona
process, which has failed and died despite it was never
buried.
If the initiative were to succeed:
1. It should be based on material cooperation and material
benefits of the Mediterranean Sea should only be shared by
countries overlooking it.
2. It should avoid political, cultural and religious mine
fields.
3. It should avoid presentation of old imperialistic maps
such as: Ottoman, Roman, Carthage, Islamic empires and
modern colonial maps.
4. It should only be confined to European and African
countries overlooking the Mediterranean Sea to make it
connecting point between the two continents.
5. The pattern of the dead Barcelona process should not be
repeated.
6. It should be designed by both sides.
What we witness and hear that one side designs and the other
should accept. There is clear disregard of the voice of the
South, which is not in the interest of making the idea
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