While the coming together of some 90 states from the Asian and African continents for the forging of "a new strategic alliance to boost trade and tackle poverty", needs to be considered as most encouraging in a global political economy which tends to disunite states rather than unite them, a word of caution would need to be raised on the need for consistent, concerted and decisive action on the part of these continents from now on, for the fulfilment of their ambitious project.