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[RCM06.07.2008]
In the name of Allah
My dear
son President, Jakaya,
Dear
brothers and sisters.
In the
name of leaders of Africa we introduce our great thanks and
appreciation to his Excellency President, Hosni Mubarak, the
people and government of Egypt and all his aides and
different bodies that put under the disposal of this summit
all facilities that enabled us to do our work in full
comfort and security.
We are
very grateful, brother president for all this great
hospitality, we are not guests... We are in our country
Egypt.
At the
same time, we thank, in the name of African leaders, my son
President, Jakaya, who administered this conference with
high competence and in a firm and democratic way.
In this
atmosphere of warm hospitality and great facilities that
Egypt has put at our disposal and with this clever
administration of the conference's President, we were able
to do our work successfully.
On
behalf of all of you, we express satisfaction for the
positive outcomes of this summit.
This
summit has tackled very important issues concerning the
future of Africa like the formation of The Union's
government on the path of the United States of Africa, the
food and water crisis and the problem of climate change.
All
these issues were thoroughly discussed and studied in a
comfortable and democratic atmosphere.
Peoples
of Africa are always looking forward to the outcomes of each
African summit and the world is observing what we do.
I
believe that we showed a good impression before the world
and we made effort that pleased to greatly extent the wishes
of our African peoples in unity and power. We are now
reaping the fruits of the long and bitter struggle for the
sake of Africa which after its liberation introduced its
unity and the Organization of African Unity transferred to
African Union after it completed its mission during the
liberation stage and now began the unification stage.
I would
like to mention the important clarification made by my
brother President, Hosni Mubarak this morning which removed
great deal of ambiguity in the minds of many people and that
is your clarification that there is big difference between
the Union's Government as an urgent executive administrative
continental mechanism and between the aim of reaching the
United Stats of Africa.
Actually, as you said my brother President, that reaching
the United States of Africa will be the fruit that ripens
when time comes and as a result of efforts to be made by the
Union's government and the achievements it will accomplish
in order to reach the stage of declaring the United States
of Africa.
Your
interjection today has contributed greatly in clarifying
this matter. Perhaps reaching an agreement upon decision in
the past was due to this confusion that was in the mind of
some people between the Union's government and between the
United States of Africa and now the matter has become very
clear.
Our
conference here is held in a convenient and democratic
climate and the time has come for action. This forthcoming
conference has placed the responsibility of taking the final
decision regarding the African Union government which will
be our instrument to implement our resolutions and achieve
our projects so that we can declare the United States of
Africa.
We are
taking with confidence in ourselves and our right to live.
We are confident about the vast resources of the African
continent. In is a rich continent. In fact it is the richest
continent. If it was not rich they would have not colonized
it. They colonized it because it was rich.
That
means that they are poor and we are rich. This is evident in
their moving from their continent particularly Europe, to
colonize us.
Therefore we have the resources which they lack of.
Therefore they colonized us to take these resources and
these potentials.
Even if
they exploited the continent it is still abundant with vast
resources. We have the minerals; we have the riches, the raw
materials, waters, rain, rivers. We have the lakes, the
forests, the deserts, the oceans and the seas.
These
resources make us confident about Africa and about Africa's
future. After we have liberated our will we can make Africa
stronger, powerful and respectable.
Here we
express our satisfaction on your behalf because we move
collectively. We are not like Europe or the United States of
America. We are characterized by the family, the group and
collectivism.
We have established the Organization of the African Unity in
1963 collectively. No independent state abstained. We
achieved a lot and we decided in the Abuja Convention to
create the African Economic Community collectively and no
one abstained. We moved from the Organization of African
Unity to the African Union collectively. We maintained
Africa's unity and we maintain its cohesion as one family.
And now we are heading towards the formation of the African
Union with the same family cohesion and unity. And no one
will abstain.
We have to be very insistent that no one abstains. This
great African tradition has to be kept and we have to move
and evolve collectively.
In the
next summit, God willing we will establish collectively the
African Union government and we will announce at the right
time later on the establishment of the United States of
Africa collectively.
It is
an advantage for Africa which makes it confident in making
the future. Through this unity and through the will and
determination and these great achievements being realized at
meetings held at six monthly intervals we will decide on the
administrative and executive instruments for our
resolutions. We will create Africa and we will oblige the
world to respect it.
We will
prove that Africa is not a continent for slaves, as they
say.
We will
prove that it is a country for the free, the revolutionary
and the masters.
Long
live united Africa in the face of challenges.
Long
live African solidarity. And long live Africa one rank and
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