Brussels: European Union's foreign policy chief Javier Solana wants countries like China and India to be included in global diplomacy talks. Solana did not moot any specific modalities of how the new countries would be integrated in the discussions.

He, however, said that "how China, India or Brazil would behave in future depended on how we treat them on the way up," during a speech in New York. "For us in the West, it also means making space at top tables. At the UN Security Council of course. But also in terms of IMF votes. And why not, G-8 membership?" he asked.

Solana said the future global system would in some ways be a system of continents and continent-wide regimes like the European Union, the African Union and ASEAN Plus.

He also stressed that trust was vital in international relations and its absence cripples the international society and may lead to serious, sometimes tragic misunderstandings.

Solana pointed out to the trust deficit between the West and the Muslim world, between the nuclear haves and have-nots, between energy consumers and suppliers, and between the developed and developing world on how to tackle climate change.