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"We can only sympathise with the fate of a continent where 25 million people will die within the next ten years and which is experiencing, due to AIDS, unprecedented economic and social decline.
The resolutions proposed by the various political groups are full of good intentions but also great naïveté.
In them you condemn the “egotism” of an industry which respects only the rules of the economic and commercial game which you at best accepted and at worst contributed to establishing. You also condemn Western indifference and the paucity of the aid given to Africa for the fight against AIDS. But you did not even have the courage of Emma Tuahepa who herself dared to ask the African Governments what they had done and what they were still doing with the money of the Africans. No more did you report that none of the eleven African Heads of State invited to the Conference either deigned to turn up or pointed out the importance of cultural and religious factors in the spread of this scourge.
In the world of the GATT and the European Union, you seem to be only just discovering that the values of sales and finance have taken over from politics. Well, Africa will not escape this human catastrophe by means of solutions offered by external sources alone. It needs not only the political will of its own leaders, but also the participation of the entire population.
There is no question of denying the financial needs of Africa. It is a question of remaining lucid: manna in the form of Western financial aid, part of which, as per usual, will end up in private bank accounts, will not be enough to curb the epidemic. It is necessary, but it is not sufficient. And it is all the more necessary as the populations of our own countries are also endangered.
Our own political leaders are acting irresponsibly. In refusing to put an end to immigration into Europe, in refusing to control it systematically, in refusing to impose systematic AIDS screening for candidates for immigration coming from African countries, you are exposing Europeans not only to HIV, but also to a number of opportunistic illnesses, such as tuberculosis, which had nonetheless been eradicated from this continent."@en1
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