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Meles Zenawi


Ethiopian
May 8, 1955
Statesman
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We have built tens of thousands of schools, clinics and rural roads.


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Eritrea is hellbent on destabilising Ethiopia. It does not care who it sleeps with.


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Our position is that we can sit down and talk to try to solve our problems through dialogue.


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We believe democracy cannot be imposed from outside in any society. Democracy is the expression of a sovereign people.
Meles Zenawi
I know more now than I did in the past about the process of democratization. I know more about the pitfalls.
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Of course everybody's thinking evolves over time. Only dead people cease learning, and I am not certified dead yet. So I am still learning.
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I would love to be the African leader that steps down, that overthrows this idea of a Big Man ruler. I don't want to stay in office forever.
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Some people think African states cannot be trusted with the cookie jar. But there are absolutely good NGOs who have this feeling of human solidarity and who also recognize that their work can only be supplementary to the government.
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It does surprise me that intelligent people in the 21st century could claim that if you respond to the terrorists with force, you spawn terrorism, but if you appease them, you somehow tame them. This argument, as I said, is very interesting, and very surprising.
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