The Alliance is established for the following purposes:

The four States freely choose to integrate their national economies on the basis of common platform that seeks to promote interests in dealing with shared visions and concerns arising from the imperatives of global competitiveness and inter-dependence;

The four states share sufficient mutual aspirations as to commit themselves at the political leadership and followership levels to the endeavour, and

The four states propose, in due course, to admit other like-minded neighbours desirous of participating in the Alliance.