Omar Bongo Quotes

• When they favor the access of other people to education and health care, the countries of the North not only demonstrate generosity or solidarity, but also implement the principles of respecting and promoting human rights.

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• 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.

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• There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.

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• The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause.

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• The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.

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• The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.

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• The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.

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• The introduction of political pluralism often quickly led to bad results.

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• 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.

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• The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.

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• 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.

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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.

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• It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.

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• It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam.

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• It is important to stress: Africa is also a victim of the September 11 attacks.

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• Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature.

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• Information on the Internet must be as free as in the newspapers.

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• In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned nor because of the wish of some nations to impose their economic or political models.

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• In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity.

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• In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.

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Omar Bongo (33)

Birth:	30th December, 1935
Death:	8th June, 2009
Nationality:	Gabonese
Profession:	-

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