Bono Blogs on Meeting French President Sarkozy
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Bono has been blogging today from the United Nations’s Summit on the MDG’s in NYC. The below post he wrote after meeting with the President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy. You can read his complete posts at FT.com.
Tough meeting with the Président de la République of France. He’s a tough guy. We like tough guys because they get straight down to business. They don’t waste their time or yours. The French budget is out this Friday and in it we will see if France intends continuing its leadership role on the continent of Africa. In the last few years, French aid has been falling.
My point was that as much as Africa needs French aid and the energy that Sarkozy himself provides, he/we need Africa. Why? Africa has never been so strategically important as it is now, economically and politically. Just ask…
Read the full post here.
-Virginia Simmons
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September 22, 2008 at 6:52 pm
It’s an important week. There’s no greater truth than the statement that “our fate is bound” with that of everyone else’s.
It would be nice to think we do things not as a proactive means of insuring our own survival, but because of love.
The net result is the same, however. Fortunately all of us, survival is built into the love concept.
September 22, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Thanks as always, Virginia, for keeping everyONE up to date in our blog. As Paul Avion siad, this IS an important week for the world’s poorest people as the U.N. assembles once more to discuss things of great international importance – especially the fate of the MDG’s in a world full of other priorities.
Although we would like to think that the world acts out of love for each other, the truth is that the world acts out of its own self-interest. And Bono has never been closer to the truth than when he said “Africa has never been so strategically important as it is now, economically and politically.”
In an unstable world, the prospect of having an entire continent teetering on the brink of collapse is simply a dangerous prospect for the future security of the entire world. The rich nations of the world must continue to keep their commitments to the world’s poorest people if we are to retain our credibility, our integrity and our future stability.
I will be following the blogs this week by Bono and Prof. Jeffrey Sachs from all the activities in NYC with ardent attention.
I wish them all the best as they speak on behalf of the millions of the world’s poorest people who can not speak for themselves in NYC this week.
Take very good care. Blessings always.~
ALWAYS FOREVER, ONE – debbie
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