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My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.
The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.
It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam.
The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states.
Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own.
Information on the Internet must be as free as in the newspapers.
Do not forget that the Arab countries, starting with Algeria and Egypt, are the ones that have paid the heaviest toll because of Islamic terror.
The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.
Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature.
From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks.
For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.
The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.
In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity.
The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.
But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.
The introduction of political pluralism often quickly led to bad results.
If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.
Therefore, every country has to understand that fighting against international terrorism is not for the sake of the United States, but for the sake of themselves, and, to a larger extent, in the name of stability of international relations.
Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.
I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.
In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.
There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.
I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!
We do not control the trade of our resources, which are an important factor of prosperity for the dominant nations.