The poor of the world stand at the gates of comfortable mansions occupied by each and every king and queen or president or prime minister privileged to attend this unique meeting, |
The progress (the ministers) have achieved ... should enable us to take the necessary decisions that will make it possible for us to emerge from this summit with a concrete plan of action, ... Nothing whatsoever can justify any failure on our part to respond to this expectation. |
The talks have just started. They are about peace in the Congo, |
Their cultures and traditions are despised as savage and primitive and their identities denied. They are not white and are deeply immersed in poverty. Of them it is said that they are human but black, whereas others are described as human and white, |
There is no substance to the allegations that there is any hesitation on the part of our government to confront the challenge of HIV-AIDS, |
These challenges require of us not just standard responses, but urgent and extraordinary interventions that will ensure that the benefits of the current scientific and technological advances are shared by everyone, including those in the most remote and isolated villages of the world, |
They (the people) put us in positions of power so that they should thrive and not so that we should seek to lighten the burden of our ponderous titles by transforming ourselves from elected and accountable politicians into self-serving tycoons, |
They don't raise issues that relate to the deputy president. People understand very well (that) these are pressing challenges they face as individuals in these communities. They want to alert us to the problems so that we can act on them. I think this is what drives them in their participation. |
They've directed us to move ahead first with our program of reconciliation and development, so the goal for a better life for all is achieved sooner rather than later. |
This day is as much a day for the inauguration of the new government as it is a day of salute for a generation that pulled our country out of the abyss and placed it on the pedestal of hope on which it rests today, |
This historic step that was taken with regard to the decommissioning of weapons really made a strategic contribution in terms of opening the way to move forward, |
This intervention shows that it's possible to go into the least-developed areas -- to the rural people -- and bring them into the modern era. |
This meeting is part of a diplomatic effort to end the more than 10-month war in the DRC, |
This particular controversy has not impacted on government whatsoever. |
Throwing money at African governments is not the answer, |