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In the past 50 years, the dream of America, which young Arabs have long admired, has been marked by an attitude of indifference, bias and wrong judgments in the political arena. Attempts to redress the injustices committed against European Jews have unfortunately been pursued without due sensitivity to the rights of the Palestinian people. This resulted in the complex tragedy that plagues the Middle East. We who believe that ending one injustice should not be done by committing another should try to find a just and human way out of this complicated dilemma. To this aim, we trust that the United States will pursue with resolution and determination the effort to accord the Palestinian people their legitimate right to self-determination and help us build a new Middle East that respects national rights and that is free from discrimination, domination and racialism. This is the challenge that faces America in the Middle East as you begin your third century, and we dedicate our effort to work with you and all the peace-loving nations to make this hope a reality. We have taken together the initial successful steps to break the deadlock and to orient our efforts toward this aim. Now we have ahead of us a great challenge of working together to build up the foundation and the edifice of a just and lasting peace in the Middle East.
The great challenge that faces our world in the coming hundred years represents problems of universal character and dimension—problems such as the widening gap between the developed world and the Third World, nuclear proliferation, the conservation of natural resources, the nationalization of the use of energy, the pollution of the human habitat, the achievement of national population levels, universal cooperation in the atmosphere and in the seas, and the world food problem.
These problems can be tackled only by an effective internal and inter-area cooperation. Their very nature dictates the substantive change that should take place in our ways of thinking so that we can be able to tackle these kinds of problems, which will assume paramount importance for the coming generation. So, as we dedicate our efforts to complete the process of national liberation, the ending of colonialism and the building of a stable and just international system, we have to direct our efforts to the new challenge that lies ahead.
I have advocated and implemented in Egypt the policy of dialogue and openness between us and the world. We are practicing the dialogue of cooperation by deeds and words alike in the area of economic and technological development. A pattern of triangular relations between advanced technology in cooperation with the capital of oil-producing countries is helping the Egyptian people to build a sound and dynamic system that can cope with the economic challenge.
I advocate this policy of the "effective dialogue" on the world scale to tackle the problem of development. America, as the leader of the Western world, is expected by us all to play a pivotal role and pioneer the Western world in this dialogue. Together we can face this challenge through effective peace and establish a world system based on real harmony.
Let us join our effort in the spirit of real dedication to forge a world order based on human values and aimed at fulfillment of human creativity and excellence.