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"Mr President, we support the passing of this resolution condemning the repression employed by the Central African Army following the attempted
of 28 May and the ethnic-based nature of this repression.
From its first recital, however, the resolution is concerned with the non-repayment of debt to the World Bank by one of the poorest countries on earth and by its population, which is dying of hunger. The resolution condemns the presence of foreign armed forces, which happen to be Libyan. How can we ignore the fact, though, that the foreign armed force that remained longest in the country, which sealed its fate, was the French army? It was the French army that enforced colonial domination and it was the French army that installed one of its junior officers, Bokassa, as the head of the Central African State once it gained its independence, without asking the opinion of the population.
How can we forget the protection given for years to the dictator Bokassa and his escapades, the presence of French ministers and of the President himself at the farce that was Bokassa’s self-coronation as emperor? Therefore, whilst we condemn the leaders of the Central African Republic and their army, we would like point out the infinitely greater responsibility of the French state and we shall abstain from voting on the resolution."@en1
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