All Omar Bongo Quotes
In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned nor because of the wish of some nations to impose their economic or political models.
Omar Bongo
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The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.
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There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.
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If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.
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The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.
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Information on the Internet must be as free as in the newspapers.
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I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.
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Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature.
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My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.
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The introduction of political pluralism often quickly led to bad results.
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Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it.
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From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks.
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Therefore, every country has to understand that fighting against international terrorism is not for the sake of the United States, but for the sake of themselves, and, to a larger extent, in the name of stability of international relations.
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In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity.
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The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.
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