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"This summit took place because the Portuguese Presidency insisted and the African Union took a gamble. Those in Europe who wanted to diminish the summit on the pretext of Robert Mugabe’s presence in Lisbon have lost. Yet those who receive the King of Saudi Arabia in London with all due pomp and circumstance have no place to talk about human rights. At the same time as the summit, numerous civic actions denounced this duplicity of words and deeds, the duplicity of those who were missing but also of those who were there.
In Portugal, the summit allowed people to talk about Africa and its problems and only for this reason was it worth the effort. However, those who have listened to the Presidency and the Commission will believe that this was a genuinely historic event, a moment with a before and an after, which is clearly an exaggeration. In fact, for the Portuguese, this was a kind of Luso-tropicalist provincialism, as apparent from the European press. Progress was made: in fact, the main element of progress was that the African countries drew up their own agenda. However, in all other respects, there was a gaping hole between the vanity of the words and the meagreness of the results. This summit was better than the Cairo Summit, but that was hardly difficult! What is difficult is to accept joint responsibility when starting from the fixed idea of economic partnership agreements."@en1
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