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"Mr President, Commissioner, it is often said that history repeats itself and, with regard to South Africa, this seems to be happening. We all know what this country has been through. It has emerged from years of social segregation and apartheid which have left permanent marks. Today, the crime and problems in this country are related, above all, to the years of social deprivation and segregation it suffered.
Yet today this country is preparing to host the World Conference Against Racism. Today, Nelson Mandela is fighting anti-white racism. Today, despite everything, this country has just won a decisive victory over the pharmaceutical industry which had decided not to provide it with any medicines: in any case, the South African people does not have access to tritherapy or AZT, medicines now capable of saving its population.
Now it is my turn to repeat myself and to say that I will keep repeating this here: abolish the third world debt, enable men and women to live in dignity at last and assign this money to education and health, which are at the very basis of this country’s resurgence – this is what is important. We have to stop beating about the bush and, at last, raise the real issues after years of apartheid. Today, we have to fight social segregation, and the only way to do that is through the cancellation of the debts of third world countries and those of, among others, South Africa."@en1
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