Statement by H.E. Ato Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia on African Challenges and Visions for Development at the First Meeting of the African Development Forum organized by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
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Statement by H.E. Ato Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia on African Challenges and Visions for Development at the First Meeting of the African Development Forum organized by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). H. E. Ato Meles, on his remarks highlighted that, Talking about globalization, the choice Africa has is not whether it should be part of the global economy or not. It is already part of it. It will wily inly be even more enmeshed in that process. This applies not only to Africa but also no matter how remote or isolated they might be, to all parts of the world. We would be naive if we were to underestimate the reach of this process and its capacity to penetrate and embrace all aspects of the lives of societies, including the cultural sphere. Africa would be made to stay on the margins of the global economy, not as an integral part of the process, but as a part which, having been excluded from benefiting from the process in a bona fide manner, would have to fall back on other options likely to be opened up by those engaged in extra-legal business activities, ranging from crime syndicates to drug traffickers. Africa, is bound to remain linked to the global economy. The question is whether that linkage will-be based on productive or non-productive activities, on legal and on bona fide activities or on extra-legal ones. The danger is that out of desperation and in the absence of fairness and of equity, the possibility may not be excluded that the options left for Africa might lead it along a path, which is good neither for Africa nor for the international community at large.
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“Meles Zenawi; United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa. (1999-10). Statement by H.E. Ato Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia on African Challenges and Visions for Development at the First Meeting of the African Development Forum organized by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). UN. ECA African Development Forum (1st : 1999, Oct. 24-28 : Addis Ababa, Ethiopia).. Addis Ababa:. © UN. ECA,. https://hdl.handle.net/10855/31434”Conference
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