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rights, it must also be given legal priorities.
In a country where unemployment, poverty and lack of hygiene are prevalent, can the freedom of speech, formation of parties and political participation be regarded as the fundamental principles?
Obviously these issues become secondary in relations to the basic needs of human beings, he argued.
Following the collapse of the former Soviet Union in 1991, the Western countries shifted their attention to Islamic countries, and after the Eastern and Western blocs, now issues of North and South are being raised.
A new definition must be found for human rights based on the culture of countries.
In the Western world some are willing to give a ear and blind obedience towards American culture has decreased.
New Developments on the International 'Scene he former editor-in chief of the French daily Le Mende, Eric Reullo was the guest of the Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS) on April 2, 1999.
In his sp ech, he said that the year 1989 was a determining year for international developments.
In this year with the fall of the Berlin wall followed by the collapse of the former Soviet Union and consequently the Eastern bloc countries, an · unprecedented situation emerged on the international scene, the result of which was that the U.
S. being transformed into the largest power of the world, was the all-out intervention of this country in the Persian Gulf war and occupation of Kuwait.
Reullo further in his speech