The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states. |
The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States. |
The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations. |
The ideological battle and the power struggle between the two blocks plunged a substantial number of African countries into armed civil conflicts. |
The introduction of political pluralism often quickly led to bad results. |
The most powerful State in the world, which up to now was relatively protected from terrorist violence, is no longer an inviolable sanctuary. |
The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice. |
The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries. |
The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South. |
The United States, with its efficient technologies for gathering and broadcasting information, has shown that it is vulnerable to fanatical groups. |
The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause. |
There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking. |
Therefore, every country has to understand that fighting against international terrorism is not for the sake of the United States, but for the sake of themselves, and, to a larger extent, in the name of stability of international relations. |
They leave Gabon and they go abroad to denigrate people, |
This decision reminds us that the threats and challenges encountered by our world require collective responses, ... The UN is the bedrock and the indispensable tool for building a system which is multilateral and effective. |