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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, like everyone else, I too am impressed with the wave of solidarity engendered across the whole of the Western world by the organisation of the Live 8 event. By watching the concerts in Hyde Park, Versailles or Toronto, which they were able to do via 140 television channels, millions of people across the globe have sent a clear message that we should not turn our backs on Africa.
The question is, though, whether the proposed solution is the best one. It remains to be seen whether the cancellation of Africa’s debt by the G8 is the best way of getting Africans to take responsibility for improving their lot. We should also be critical towards quite a few African leaders and, as the brother of the South African President, Muletsi Mbeki, did in the
have the nerve to say out loud that Africa’s problem resides in the plundering of the continent, and is being inflicted by its own leaders.
As a Fleming, I know only too well that in the past, Belgian politicians nurtured Mobutu, who was a common thief, and also that the French Africa policy was often one of unscrupulous complicity with political figures who did not give a damn about the misery of their own people.
I cannot, therefore, agree with Bob Geldof when he says that we should not dwell on corruption too much. Africa deserves our all-out support, but not when our money ends up in the pockets of corrupt politicians."@en1
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