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You are quite right. In many cases I, like you, have noted that our joint efforts in the fields of promoting development, trade and human rights on this continent come up against political problems. I also believe that African leaders and the governments of these countries are more aware now than in the past of the need to address, both on their own and with one another, a number of political obstacles of this type. Programmes such as NEPAD – which we support because our work on regional integration in Africa closely mirrors the strategy adopted by this new partnership – are, in my opinion, moving in the same direction.
I repeat; you are quite right. This being the case, what we have is a chicken and egg situation, in which the chicken is probably political and the egg is probably economic. Nevertheless, given the state of the world, we cannot refrain from using the eggs available to us in order to take things forward. This is a daily chore that requires patience. If we manage to convince a number of economic operators to work towards an environment that is more stable, less conflict-ridden and less disjointed, we could perhaps, here and there, create pressure for peace. If, on the other hand, communities and those who appoint their leaders are not interested, we will find it much more difficult to achieve our aim. Politicians certainly have a responsibility to free up some of these economic resources, but let us not stop working from the bottom up. This, I believe, would be a mistake."@en1
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