My name is Ruy Duarte Barros. I'm the member of the advisory board of the ICD.
Some are here for a speech about cultural diplomacy and human rights in Africa.
You know, when you hear about Africa, only you hear bad words.
Malaria, corruption, fighting, etc., etc.
But they have very good perspective in Africa.
I think in 50 years we'll come Africa will be a great continent and it will be a very great continent for foreign investment.
So, you are right. We're still facing a lot of big problems in Africa.
The problem of corruption is still there.
And we are rich, but we are poor at the same time.
Yeah, exactly.
So, what we should do? We must address our problems by ourselves.
Our corrupt leaders, we must take them down.
Not to go every time to the IMF, World Bank, to ask for money.
And then we repay this money and nothing is happening in the country.
So, I think our big challenge is to work for our country and to solve the problem by ourselves.
If you see more than 93% of murder in Africa is doing by themselves, by themselves, by African.
It's not by foreigners.
And sometimes they are misunderstanding.
If you see the problem of Libya, what is growing now in all Western Africa.
But what is the problem of Libya?
The big democracy destroys Libya.
And the terrorism is spreading everywhere in Africa.
And this is very bad.
We must be conscientious and to fight against this cause and to work together to develop our continent.
Because they have a very, very, very interesting perspective in the future for Africa.
I want to tell you something very good.
You know, turkeys are very active in Africa now.
You can see turkeys are alive everywhere.
You can see investors from Turkey in West Africa.
This is very good.
We need to choose the good partner to work with and to help us go ahead.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.