 The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States. |
| 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. |
| The introduction of political pluralism often quickly led to bad results. |
| 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 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. |
| Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature. |
| 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 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. |
| I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize! |
| In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity. |
| 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. |
| Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it. |
| Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own. |
