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". – It is difficult to say what is most important. In cases like this almost everything is important. I would say to Mr Posselt that consolidating peace, to give people the confidence that it is irreversible, is most important right now. But certainly it is essential to open up the interior of the country and make roads safe from landmines so that economic life and the resettlement of people can take place. This is extremely high on the agenda.
For many years any support, even food supplies and basic commodities, has had to be flown in to the small towns in most of the country: these towns were more or less isolated because of UNITA which surrounded them. For humanitarian reasons, for political reasons and for economic reasons, opening up and creating a normal flow is absolutely essential. There is an increasing number of accidents due to landmines because things are starting to move now. It is therefore enormously urgent to accelerate that effort.
As regards agriculture, as defined in the country strategy paper, we will be focusing on agricultural development. This is essential both for the survival of the people and because of the enormous potential that Mr Posselt rightly pointed to. Angola is more than diamonds and oil. It is also a country that has great potential for a much more diversified economy."@en1
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