The voices that once boasted that regional integration would automatically bring about peace and stability are increasingly getting fainter - bewildered by the many conflicts and emerging challenges that we face.
The time has definitely come for a new paradigm that combines old and new, one that will extend the promise of integration to all troubled countries in the region while ensuring that we all move together in defence of our shared values and principles.
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