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"NEPAD is without doubt a development project conceived and adopted by the African states, but it should not be looked upon as a project that will emancipate the African people. Indeed, it is increasingly denounced, like the Cotonou Agreement, the WTO and the IMF’s structural adjustment policies, by sectors of civil society such as the Addis Ababa African Social Forum and the People’s Forum held in Siby in Mali in 2003. In fact, it is part of a neo-liberal logic, the actual consequences of which run counter to the objectives laid down. There can be no appropriation of development at either national or regional level while the Washington Consensus, imposed on the current African leaders to later be taken over, provides for the private appropriation of the most profitable economic heritage by the multinationals. Thus, the social rights and freedoms acquired over the last three decades of independence are being dismantled through the revision of national labour and investment codes. The fact that NEPAD consulted the multinationals and the G8 rather than the African people says a lot about its idea of democracy. As a result, we cannot vote for a resolution that merely criticises the lack of consultation while concealing the fundamental, harmful logic underpinning NEPAD."@en1

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