size. Towards this end, Tunisia has constantly given its material and moral support to the liberation movements on the African Continent (Algeria, Namibia, South Africa, and Eritrea) and in the Arab world (Palestine). It has also spoken for the putting into practice of the relationships based on independence, the strict equality in rights and non-interference, the recognition of the right to differences in opinion and, if need be, to divergence of views on such and such an issue. 497. By entering the great combat for a genuine new world order which is fairer and more stable, Tunisia contributes to the opening of new perspectives for peace and security. It contributes in an original and innovative manner to the solution of the vital problems of hunger, under-development, illiteracy. By acting in this manner, Tunisia acquires the means of a greater opening on the world, of the re-balancing of its external exchanges, of improved cooperation with the Third World, that is to say, the means of a more exhaustive integration in its international environment. 498. By establishing new types of links with the other nations, it contributes to the creation, around itself, of beneficial solidarity for its economic, political and social development. For by supporting other peoples’ combat for peace, development, security and stability, for greater justice, freedom and independence, Tunisia can only find new means of guaranteeing its democratic development and its firm implantation in modernism, while participating in the advent of a new era in international relations. 499. According to Article 2 of the Tunsian Constitution, « the Tunisian Republic constitutes a part of the Great Arab Maghreb, the unity of which it works for in the context of the common interest ». It is for this reason that the diplomatic efforts in relation to the Maghrebi Union are being engaged with the hope that it will end by overcoming the economic difficulties which preclude the revival of its progress and the concretization of the aspirations of the Maghrebi peoples for complementarity and unity. 500. The interest of diplomacy also relates to « the Middle East zone » with the hope « that peace and security will finally be established there, so that the brotherly Palestinian people can recover their rights and create an independent State on its own soil, and so that the brotherly Iraqi people can enjoy security and stability, in a context of harmony and national unity ». 501. Moreover, during the Summit of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) of Algiers in 1999, Tunisia subscribed to the Algiers Declaration which proclaimed the right of peoples to self-determination and to democracy and which condemns anti-constitutional changes. 502. Tunisia, particularly during its chairmanship of the OAU in June 1994, also called for the firmer implantation of the notions of respect and sovereignty, of noninterference and the right to self-determination, in African relations and more generally in international relations. During the OAU Summit held in 1994 in Tunis, the adoption of a Code of Conduct had been proposed to govern interAfrican relations. Tunisia had advocated the establishment of this Code of Conduct in order to organize the relations between the countries of the Continent, on the basis of the attachment of all to the principles and objectives of 106