Skeptics wonder whether the effort to build an American regional bloc makes sense.

The committee members, who met late last month, are chosen from regional blocs.

The organization was envisioned to be based on nine regional blocs represented in the assembly, and with an independent police force.

It was the first time the UN operated in this manner with a regional bloc.

Slates will still be nominated by regional blocs without regard to human rights performance.

Indeed, in recent weeks European governments have acted more individually than as a regional bloc.

The regional economic blocs, apart from our own European Union, are not living through good times.

The compromise authorises exports to countries forming part of the same regional bloc.

We should try and use the talks to break any regional blocs.

In fact, the creation of regional blocs destabilises global security.