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Use Egypt Summit to take decisive step on Union
Government agenda - CSO
Accra, June 12, Ghanadot/GNA – African Civil Society
Organisations on Thursday called on African leaders to use
the 11th African Union Summit in Egypt to take a decisive
decision on the formation of a government of United States
of Africa.
“This is a great opportunity for continental integration
that will benefit the African people. The idea is that the
government will work on the principle of shared values and
common interests that will ensure the collective
self-development of the African people,” Mrs. Bineta Diop,
Executive Director of Femmes Africa Solidarite (FAS), a
non-governmental organisation, stated in a statement to the
Ghana News Agency in Accra.
She said the government would lead to adherence to the rule
of law; popular participation in governance; respect for
human rights and fundamental freedoms; and transparency in
public policy making.
She said the ultimate goal of the Government of the African
Union would be to fulfil political and economic integration
which should lead to the transformation of African
countries' social, political and economic structures to
those that conformed to the accepted world governance
standards.
Mrs. Diop said formation of the Government of the African
Union would be a better mechanism for addressing the
proliferation of conflicts on the continent than the present
principle of “non interference in internal matters” of
individual governments even when one could see the negative
consequences of the conflicts.
On the issue of Small Arms and Light Weapons, Mrs. Diop said
she considered the problem as a serious impediment to
Africa’s social and economic development.
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