Within the framework of the activities of the 21st festival for heritage and culture at Janadriya, a seminar was organized here last night on the experience of the European Union (EU). Speaking on the occasion, Clovis Maksoud, the former representative of the Arab league to the United Nations, called on the Arabs to benefit from the experience of the EU. He noted that Europe was able to be united despite its various conflicting nationalities because Europe realized the important fact that it could never attain progress and development without the unification of its economic, political and commercial systems. On his part, Dr Mohammed Al Al-Sheikh, the Saudi ambassador to France, reviewed the stages being passed by the EU. He noted that the EU was called at its first stage as the European community, then it was developed into the European common market and later into its current form. He pointed out that the EU at the beginning of its march had focused on realizing the commercial and economic interests in various domains. Meanwhile, Dr Hakkar Mohammed Ahmed, the director of the office of the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY) in Central Africa, urged the Muslim countries to give up their narrow national interests and to work for the unity of the Arab and Muslim nation.
