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He said it was not the mandate of the Peace and Security Commission to recognise the NTC and the summit “should look at what happened and we should be deciding whether to recognise the NTC or not.”
“Well, well that was Libya. Who will be next?” asked the President.
He said Nato had now discovered that “we are toothless bulldogs” and “they can come in and out” of the continent without anyone challenging them.
“This is not what our founding fathers would have thought would happen. We don’t certainly represent them properly if we take that stance. So I am saying let’s look at ourselves, Mr Chairman, look at ourselves and look at Europe.
“I saw a picture yesterday of Gaddafi shaking hands with Sarkozy in France after they invited him there but those hands that Gaddafi was shaking were the hands that were going to kill him a few months later. How far then do we go in associating with such people?
“They have an economic crisis in Europe, they have exhausted their resources. Africa still has plenty of them. We are discovering more oil, more minerals, gold, more diamonds. We still have our natural resources, natural gas, so another recolonisation might take place.
Let us take care, all of us. It has not just happened to Gaddafi.
“America will need more oil, Europe needs more oil,” he said adding that soon after killing Gadaffi, America and Europe rushed to apportion themselves oil rescources in Libya.
The President said he was there when the then Organisation of African Uunity was formed in 1963 in Ethiopia and he went on to attend its next meeting in 1964 in Cairo, Egypt before he was arrested by the Rhodesian regime.
“You redeemed me (freeing him from jail), you redeemed Mandela and many more and we thank you because you are the successors of the founding fathers who actually did it. If they did it, you did it but this time there are things you are not doing which they would have done. Let us be like them,” he said to thunderous applause from the delegates.
South African President Jacob Zuma was chairing the session and soon after the President’s speech, a clearly livid and incoherent NTC representative took to the floor but some delegates were already walking out.
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