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Robert Dussey

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first: 2014-09-24
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“It is the expression of a new Africa, an African Africa, an African-speaking Africa that wants to be free, sovereign, independent and in control of itself. In short, it is clear to Africa’s youth. Those words are clear. It is this. It is that we are tired of paternalism. We are tired of contempt for our people’s views, for our people and our leaders. We are tired of the condescension. We are tired of the arrogance. We are tired, we are tired, we are tired.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“The Africa about which I am talking is no longer prepared to accept the tendency of certain countries to make their geostrategic agendas the concerns of Africans. The challenges facing our world are indeed great, and Africa’s new directions in terms of foreign relations are driven by the dynamics of renewal and a paradigm shift. The time has come for an African and panAfrican awakening, where our continent has regained an awareness of itself and of its responsibilities, both internally and towards the rest of the world. Africa needs a partnership that respects the full dignity of every individual. We want to be partners, not subjects. We want to serve our peoples, not foreign interests. As we repeatedly say. that new dynamic is not directed against anyone.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“We want a reformed international system, based on values and principles that are respected by all and that are respectful of the right of peoples to freely position themselves as they see fit on the international stage. The right of peoples to self-determination implies the right of each State to behave as it wishes on the international stage within the limits of respect for its international commitments. On the major transnational challenges of our century, such as climate change and the fight against international terrorism, our views may intersect with those of others, but they must remain our deeply considered views, decided in accordance with our own agendas. There is no longer any question of the Africa that we want and wishing to play a secondary role in the dynamics of global change.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“the struggle against poverty, the industrialization of the continent, economic prosperity, the fight for peace, the struggle against the de-Africanization of Africa and for an African renaissance and dignity, the struggle to free ourselves once and for all from foreign subordination and the commitment to ensuring a better representation of our continent in the concert of nations and continents. Our struggles are neither those of the West nor those of the East, still less those of any one side or part of the world. We must focus on our current and future struggles. International politics cannot be reduced to a captive field, where we are obliged to take a position in favour of one side against another.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“Our continental organization, the African Union, is working to best convey the hope and voice of a healthy Africa that wishes to be sovereign, free and independent on the international stage. We are also working to that end as part of the African Political Alliance, launched in Lome. The rivalry among the great Powers need not primarily be African rivalries. The challenge for us. as African nations, is to avoid taking part in rivalries that are not our own. We must fight our own battles, which include the struggle against neo-colonialism.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“The issue of the reform of the global multilateral architecture is of such concern to Africa that it will be at the heart of the 2024 ninth Pan-African Congress, to be held in Lome. For those who do not know, now is the time for an African, a pan-African. awakening. As part of the pan-African impetus, and in line with the noble objectives of the fathers of African independence. Africa and Africans are calling for. and expect, their own voices to be heard on the international stage in a sovereign, free and independent manner. Africa knows what it wants. The peoples of Africa and the global South are frustrated because they feel insulted and dehumanized. Sometimes they ask themselves: who are you to scorn our humanity in that way? Who are you to scorn us like that? Who are you to humiliate us like that?”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“The fractures of the colonial era among a so-called French-. Spanish-. Portuguese-. Arabic- and English- speaking Africa have diminished, as have the postCold War ideologies that dominated the entire second part of the twentieth century. Today Africa wants to be itself. We say today, as we said last year, we prefer Africanophone. Africa expects more equality, respect, equity and justice in its relations and partnerships with the rest of the world and with the major Powers, whichever they may be. Today Africans want to be true partners. Africa certainly does not have the same megaphones as a great Power of the world, but the voice of Africa counts, and it must count if we want to have Africa as a partner on major international issues.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“In any case, what is clear and what I would like to recall here is that Africa now looks at its relations with the great Powers in terms of its own interests. Last year, at this same platform. I told the Assembly that Africa no longer wanted to align itself with the great Powers, whichever they may be (see A/77/PV.11). The role assigned to Africa in the twenty-first century is evocative of the image that certain Powers of our continent still have: their zone of influence. We must be concerned about the place that Africa occupies on the world stage. Today Africa does not occupy the place that it should hold on the international scene. The great Powers want to reduce Africa to a purely instrumental entity in the service of their causes, and they obviously do not want the continent to be able to play an important role.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“The time is past when other entities claimed to speak on behalf of an Africa that they do not even listen to here at the United Nations and on the international stage. Africa’s partners, new and old. which are still reluctant to accept the new direction taken by Africa in the process of historical evolution, must change their attitude and approach to an Africa that has changed profoundly. Over the past few decades, our world has undergone great silent revolutions, the profound significance of which lies in the qualitative renewal that they bring about in relations among nations, and which accompanies them throughout their own history. The reality of the world is that there are no longer monopolistic centres of gravity. The centre of the world now is here and nowhere else. No one is the centre of the world.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“As far as the reform of the Security Council is concerned, we do not want to go back over it again. We have already said that Africa can no longer remain on the sidelines of the organ responsible for ensuring international peace and security. The Security Council can no longer remain merely the preserve of the victors and their allies of the Second World War. Nothing can justify maintaining the status quo. The ideological and institutional architecture of the post-war world is now obsolete. The status quo cannot continue. We are in a new era in Africa’s and the global South’s relations with the world, and in the new dynamic Africa no longer intends to remain in the shadow of any great Power.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“Those and many other issues will be examined at the Lome Peace and Security Forum, the first of which is scheduled for 21 and 22 October, under the theme of strengthening transitions to democratic governance in Africa. The aim is to examine how to develop strategies to meet the challenges of political transition in a coordinated, relevant and effective manner. With the political and security crises that are transforming Africa, it is even more necessary to adopt a posture of adaptation. Thus. Togo and several other countries decided in Lome in May to create the African Political Alliance, which is intended to be a framework for consultation, political dialogue and joint action, based on the historical ties of fraternity and the principles of the sovereign equality of States, dependence and unity of action.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“In order to achieve the full implementation of the commitments made in Lome, and thereby relieve the suffering of the civilian population, we urge the Sudanese parties to the conflict to favour the path of dialogue and consultation for a rapid settlement of the differences in the best interests of the Sudan. We hope that the Togolese approach, which supports other initiatives, will help to put an end to the conflict, which, strangely, is not receiving the attention that it should from the international community. In West Africa and the Sahel, the recent years have also been marked by unconstitutional devolutions of power, with the setting up of transitional regimes, whose reappearance, beyond the issues that they raise, oblige us to rethink our systems of governance.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“On the African continent for the past few months, the Sudan, a brother country, has been affected by an armed conflict that is causing a great deal of concern. Aware of the importance of peace and security for sustainable and inclusive development. Togo, which has made those one of the main axes of its development policy, hosted, under the aegis of the President of the Republic. President Faure Essozimna Gnassingbe, a consultative and cooperative dialogue among the political and military leaders of Darfur in Lome in July, with a view to contributing to the resolution of the Sudanese conflict. Those consultations led to a compromise to put an end to the violence and create a humanitarian corridor.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“We call for the de-escalation and cessation of hostilities in the various hotbeds of tension in the world, in particular in West Africa. Africa has suffered too much from war. and a minimum sense of responsibility must convince us to invest in the prevention and peaceful resolution of conflicts. The bad thing about war. said our writer Immanuel Kant, is that it makes more villains than it can take away. External interference causes conflict and crisis in Africa. It generally complicates the search for solutions to our crises and undermines African initiatives to find solutions to African crises. It is no longer welcome in an Africa that is aware of its own responsibilities in resolving the problems of peace, security and development. Africa no longer wants external interference. Africa wants to remain itself and the master of its destiny.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“Togo has never waged war on its neighbours. Togo has never attacked its neighbours or any other country. Togo has never served as a rear base for any form of aggression against a brother country. Togo is a country of peace. Peace is in the DNA of the Togolese people. Togo has always been a country of mediation that favours dialogue, negotiation and understanding among peoples and Governments. On 6 January. 49 Ivorian soldiers were released thanks to the mediation of the President of the Togolese Republic. President Faure Essozimna Gnassingbe, putting an end to the tension between the Governments of Cote d’Ivoire and Mali. Togo hosted various peace talks on its territory. We can cite them. There was Chad in 1982. Sierra Leone in 1991. the Liberian war in 1991. Cote d’Ivoire in 2000. et cetera, et cetera.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“Africa is seeking its way forward, and Togo supports peace efforts in Africa. Terrorism and instability in Africa are issues of international security and must be treated as such by the United Nations. Our West African region, where several States are in transition in a volatile security context, must be supported in a spirit of active solidarity. We must invest more in peace than we do in war. If the protagonists of the world’s various conflicts are listening to us. I would like to tell them that war is a denial of human dignity. Immanuel Kant, that great philosopher of the Enlightenment, said that if the decision-makers in war could send their own children to the front, there would never be a war. Togo is a country of peace, and Togo opposes war for any reason. Since our independence on 27 April 1960.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“That is a major step towards the climate justice for which developing countries have been calling. However, much remains to be done to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and the use of fossil fuels, among other things. In that regard, we hope that COP28. to be held in Dubai in November this year, will enable us to see significant progress in the implementation of the commitments that we made. The Climate Ambition Summit, held here on 20 September, was an opportune moment to demonstrate the existence of genuine will to expedite the implementation of a just transition towards a world that is equitable and more resilient to climate change. In the continent’s challenging environment, characterized by the spread of international terrorism and the emergence of new areas of tension.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“called the Tinga Fund, was therefore established in order to enable Togo to ensure universal access to reliable, sustainable, modern and affordable energy services by 2030. Through the Cizo project, solar energy kits are supplied to vulnerable rural populations throughout the country, while the Government tirelessly continues to install photovoltaic power plants and miniature solar power plants, thereby helping to boost the contribution of renewable energy to Togo’s energy management policy. Accordingly, we welcome the commitments and announcements made at the twenty-seventh session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27). in particular the establishment of a specific fund to finance loss and damage to vulnerable countries hit hard by climate-related disasters.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“Togo has set up a regional programme for integrated coastal management and combating coastal erosion. Togo aims to protect 90 per cent of its coastline by 2025. Finally, in the context of preserving and restoring ecosystems and combating desertification. Togo has launched a major national reforestation programme to plant 1 billion trees by 2030. banned the import, marketing and use of glyphosate, and all products containing it. and promoted the use of biopesticides and biofertilizers in our country. In the area of renewable energies, strategic and diversified partnerships have been forged to provide reliable, modern and low-cost services in rural areas. A fund for access to electricity for all.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“That programme gives pride of place to environmental protection and preservation. It is the practical expression of Togo’s determination to join the international effort to combat the harmful effects of climate change. To ensure the sustainable management and protection of marine and coastal ecosystems, the Togolese Government has therefore focused its priorities, on the one hand, on the sustainable management and protection of marine and coastal ecosystems, the regulation of fishing, the reduction of the vulnerability of people and property to extreme climatic phenomena and. on the other hand, on the fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and the promotion of the blue economy. In terms of the sustainable protection of the marine and coastal environment.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“Togo has implemented a series of priority projects with economic, social and structural benefits for our people. Health, through the introduction of universal health coverage, food security, socioeconomic inclusion, decent work for the advancement of all and shared prosperity remain priority areas for Government action. The Government’s efforts to make Togo a country open to the world continue. We are committed to strengthening economic, social and democratic stability, which helps to attract investors and guarantee Togo’s place as a preferred destination. The multifaceted actions that we are taking are in line with the United Nations and African commitments of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Agenda 2063. and they are in line with the quest for sustainable development shared by all Members of the United Nations.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“It includes the emergency programme for the Savannah region, with an overall budget estimated at more than $324 million for the implementation of various projects in the water, energy, health, infrastructure, education and agriculture sectors by 2025. I would like to take this opportunity to express the Togolese Government’s gratitude to all our partners in the fight against terrorism, and we hope that the various partnerships will be steadily strengthened in order to put an end to that terrorist maelstrom. Given the many situations of vulnerability and crisis in Africa, and which basically spare no country on the continent, the Togolese Government is working at the national level to advance the development agenda through an ambitious road map 2020-2025.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“In recent years, terrorism has developed at an alarming rate on our continent in the Sahel, the Horn of Africa region and Southern Africa. Africa risks becoming a safe haven for international terrorism and remaining the weakest link in the global security system. Our coastal countries on the Gulf of Guinea, long spared, have begun to pay a heavy toll due to terrorism. To respond effectively to the terrorist threat. Togo has therefore taken innovative multisectoral measures, as set out in its strategy document to combat violent extremism, adopted on 5 July 2022. That strategy makes it possible to balance security and development approaches by combining operational and legal measures with more flexible endogenous measures.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“our Africa, the Africa of freedoms, the Africa of our fathers, oh. the Africa of our mothers, is wounded and bruised. Our continent. Africa, is facing multisectoral vulnerability — vulnerability due to our weak revenue and low levels of development, vulnerability due to major health crises, vulnerability due to the effects of climate change and vulnerability due to the disruption of global food supply chains. It is a vulnerability due to the encroachment of African cyberspace by cybercriminals and disinformation, vulnerability due to the recurrence of armed conflicts and the prevalence of war. and vulnerability due to the spread on the continent of international terrorism, threatening international peace and stability.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“Trust and solidarity among nations are almost at half-mast, and we have the high responsibility to work to repair it by rediscovering the meaning of our noblest commitments. The choice and relevance of the theme that guides the general debate of this seventh-eighth session of the General Assembly, namely. “Rebuilding trust and reigniting global solidarity: accelerating action on the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals towards peace, prosperity, progress and sustainability for all”, clearly and unmistakably conveys not only the unsustainable, disrupted and unstable state of the world, but also our determination at a higher level to do things for the better. The emergence of new sources of tension in the world must concern us. I come from a country. Togo, and from a continent that is currently under great strain. Africa, oh.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“Faure Essozimna Gnassingbe, and the Togolese people to the brotherly peoples and Governments of the Kingdom of Morocco and Libya following the earthquake and the floods in each of their countries, respectively. As we meet here today, it is clear that our world is not in particularly good shape. It is deeply sick, and its pathology calls on us to assume as high a level of responsibility as the United Nations. Do our commitments match the scale of the challenges? That is the question of which we cannot lose sight if our ambition at the United Nations is truly to improve the state of the world in order to grant our peoples and our various countries greater opportunity, safety, security and assurance. Our world is increasingly less secure.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“On the occasion of the seventy-eighth session of the General Assembly of our common institution, on behalf of my country. Togo, and His Excellency President Faure Essozimna Gnassingbe, allow me first of all to offer my warm congratulations to Mr. Dennis Francis of Trinidad and Tobago on his election and his skill in conducting the work of this session. My warm congratulations also go not only to his predecessor. Mr. Csaba Korosi. who presided over our work last year, but also, and above all. to Secretary- General Antonio Guterres, who is doing the best that he can to restore the image of the United Nations as a modern institution despite the procrastination and complexity of the path of the reform. I would also like to convey the condolences and support of the President of the Togolese Republic. Mr.”
2023-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 78 (2023)
“We should — and I truly mean this — read our founding texts more often and learn to respect and consider the smallest, weakest and the most fragile among us. Yes, we believe that another world is possible. It is inevitable for all of us, because in truth — and here I paraphrase the famous scientist Albert Einstein on the subject of war — I do not know what the Third World War will be like, but I do know that there would not be many people left to see the fourth.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“The current international economic repercussions and disruptions directly resulting from the return of war to Europe are a clear example of that. In reality, we are all exposed to the same threats and challenges to our survival and even our existence. However, we deeply believe that we can build a prosperous, more stable and safer world for our peoples through an enhanced and effective multilateralism. Our only option for achieving that is restoring, under the aegis of the United Nations, the strength and determination in our collective capacity for dialogue, resilience and solidarity, which will enable us to make our planet habitable again for all and to sustainably build our shared world together.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“Africa’s megaphone may not be as loud as those of the world’s major Powers, but Africa’s voice counts and must count for those who seek to partner with it on major international issues. Africa is in fact waiting for a real partnership and our allies must make an effort to take on the spirit of such a partnership. Our allies cannot always expect unconditional support from our continent. Africa wants to cooperate with its allies on the basis of its own best interests. To that end, our partners need to abandon fantasies that were largely forged in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and are clearly out of step with the twenty-first century, in which national and regional challenges have global implications and global challenges have regional, national and even local manifestations and ramifications.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“The community of nations must listen to Africa in order to give purpose to our dialogue. Failure to listen distorts the purpose of dialogue, turning it into a juxtaposition of monologues and partial arguments, sometimes under the guise of pseudo-multilateralism, which runs the risk of distorting the relationship. In this world of ours, it is only by collectively pooling our intelligence that we will be able to reach agreement on objectives to achieve collectively. Although the major problems we continue to face are the same, they are perceived in different ways by the North and the South. When it comes to major international issues, listening to African voices means more than just calibrating the discussion.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“In reality, many African countries no longer feel too bound, in the sense of being tied, by colonial history and are eager to work with new partners. All those changes, linked to history itself, whose essence is perpetual evolution, as well as to the clear desire for a paradigm shift in the level of cooperation in Africa, should lead some Powers to change their approach if they want to continue to work with Africans. There is a need for a change of mentality and behaviour of our partners who come to Africa, each of whom without exception has an agenda dictated primarily by their own interests. Africa expects more equality, respect, equity and justice in its relations and partnerships with the rest of the world and the major Powers, regardless of who they are. Today Africans want to be real partners with the rest of the world.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“The divides of the colonial era between a so-called, inter alia, French-, Portuguese-, English- or Arabic-speaking Africa have lessened, as have the post-Cold war ideologies that dominated the second half of the twentieth century. Today Africa wants to be itself. In truth, Africa is Africanophone, if you will allow that neologism. Africa today is no longer the Africa of the 1945s, let alone the 1960s. Today we have a host of new partners in Africa that are an integral part of the new international geopolitics, far removed from the two opposing blocs that shaped the post-war world of the twentieth century. The world has decentred to become multipolar. To paraphrase Blaise Pascal, the world is now a sphere whose centre is both everywhere and nowhere. Africa no longer can, or wants to, be the carriages of a single locomotive.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“The great Powers want to reduce Africa to a merely functional entity in the service of their causes and clearly do not want the continent to be able to play a significant, or even a leading, role in the world. They usually try to get Africans to subscribe to their narrative and, in the end, Africans are used to support one side against another. When it comes to voting on a draft resolution in the Security Council, we are actively lobbied by both sides. Africa is then greatly in demand, and even put under pressure by some of its partners. Today we believe that such attitudes and actions, which belong to another era, take place in a historical context in which Africa has become aware of its own responsibility and is increasingly speaking with one and the same voice.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“Although the African integration project is still in progress, a consensus has since emerged among African States at the level of the African Union, as recalled at this session by the President of Senegal, Chairperson of the African Union, with regard to the need for the continent to obtain two permanent representative seats on the Security Council, in addition to the two non-permanent member seats allocated to African States (see A/77/PV.4). Despite the general consensus of 54 Member States, the reluctance of some of the five permanent members to see Africa take up those seats is clear. Unfortunately, Africa’s voice does not seem to be heard, as some simply do not want Africa to be a strong continent.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“For many Powers, the African continent has no role to play as a major actor, in the Kantian sense of the word, in the international arena. They think that they live in the same world, whereas the world has profoundly changed. When the United Nations was established in 1945, apart from two African countries that we all know — Liberia and Ethiopia — African countries were not yet independent. After 77 years, unfortunately, it is the same international system that remains in place because of the will of the five permanent members of the Security Council, known to us all.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“Today we are convinced that African countries, and Africa in general, no longer want to align themselves with any of the major Powers due to the shortcomings of the concept of multilateralism. The role attributed to Africa in the twenty-first century reflects the image that certain Powers still have of our continent as solely their area of influence. Africa has virtually no impact on the current world order, while it is drastically affected by the consequences of the disruptions in international affairs. It is only of interest to certain Powers when they find themselves in trouble. We must be concerned about Africa’s place on the world stage. In truth, today Africa does not occupy the place that it should in the international arena.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“It also seeks to show us that we are the driver of development and sustained global growth. Today we are called on to take concrete action to address the many challenges that plague our world, including terrorism and security challenges, as well the coronavirus disease. However, unfortunately, we see that all too often we flout our multilateral commitments. We have at times taken away their substance, their strength and their roots. How else can we understand why the Security Council remains so exclusive? Why not work in good faith to reform that important organ of the international security system by making it more representative of the current world realities? Based on that analysis, we come to the following conclusion.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“In addition, an incentive mechanism for agricultural financing based on risk-sharing and a plan to structure and improve rural agricultural training and integration were launched. To conclude my remarks, I would like to encourage everyone to consider the foundations of multilateralism and the aims of the founding fathers in devising that system of global governance. At the seventy-fifth session of the General Assembly, we had a wide-ranging debate on the United Nations we want and reaffirmed our commitment to multilateralism. The important declaration (resolution 75/1) adopted at the commemoration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the United Nations adequately reflects the new multilateral ambition to which we committed, and which, moreover, aims to be just and equitable.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“As a result, other innovative initiatives have made it possible to expedite the inclusion of all social groups. Those include the adoption of the law establishing universal health insurance and the WEZOU digital platform, set up in 2021, to take care of pregnant women and newborns in order to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality. Strengthening women’s protection against discrimination and gender-based violence and reducing sociocultural barriers have considerably improved the contribution of the female population to the country’s development. Togo set up a mechanism for the financial inclusion of the most vulnerable sectors of the population through cash transfers. A project for the development of social-safety nets and basic services, as well as a programme to support vulnerable populations, was established.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“The reform of the business climate enabled Togo to significantly increase foreign direct investment in the country. Similarly, the strengthening of development cooperation has contributed to the increased mobility of foreign resources due to the new momentum created by the adoption of the Government’s road map and its endorsement by development stakeholders, the establishment of new partnerships and the revitalization of existing partnerships. The major challenge for Togo is to implement and strengthen its national social protection system. Improving people’s access to basic social services and strengthening inclusion mechanisms also remain fundamental to poverty reduction. To achieve that, the Government has included the principle of leaving no one behind in public policies.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“Consequently, the fund for access to electricity for all, called the Tinga fund, the Cizo, or Sun, project for the supply of solar-energy kits to rural and vulnerable populations, photovoltaic power plants, miniature solar power plants and solar street lamps were set up throughout the country, contributing to the widespread use of renewable energy in Togo. On the economic and social front, Togo adopted a Government road map up to 2025, whose vision is to make Togo a modern nation with inclusive and sustainable growth. The road map has three main axes, namely, strengthening inclusion and social harmony and ensuring peace, boosting job creation by building on the economic potential and modernizing the country by strengthening its structures.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“We very much hope that the upcoming twenty- seventh session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, to be held in Egypt from 7 to 18 November, will help to bring environmental conservation back to the centre of the international agenda by urging stakeholders to honour the financing pledges needed to address global warming. In the area of renewable energy, Togo established strategic partnerships for the provision of reliable, modern and low-cost services in rural areas.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“With a view to sustainable management and protection, the Togolese Government has therefore focused its priorities, among other things, on improving marine and coastal ecosystems, regulating fishing and promoting the blue economy. Lastly, as part of the preservation and restoration of ecosystems and combating desertification, Togo launched a major national reforestation programme of 1 billion trees by 2030, banned the import, marketing and use of glyphosate and all products containing it and promoted the use of biopesticides and biofertilizers in the country.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“That United Nations Programme, aimed at strengthening the capacities of Member States and providing them with logistical support for the protection of vulnerable targets against terrorist attacks, has proved to be of great importance to our countries. The other major challenge facing humankind is climate change. All the experts’ reports on that issue are worrisome. That phenomenon is all the more of concern because it affects all countries in the world, including, unfortunately, the least polluting countries, such as ours. Togo adopted a robust policy for the restoration of vegetation cover, with an ambitious programme for a green transition. The Togolese Government is firmly committed to ensuring the sustainable management of natural resources and resilience to the impact of climate change.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“To that end, an emergency programme for the Savannah region, with a budget of $9,104,704, was drawn up for the implementation of various projects up to 2025 in the water, energy, health, infrastructure, education and agriculture sectors. We are in a new phase of the asymmetric war against that terrorist insurgency. The deterioration of the security situation must be of concern to us all, particularly the United Nations. To that end, it is important to successfully revitalize our Organization and do our utmost to reform the Security Council. I would like to take this opportunity to commend the Global Programme on the Protection of Vulnerable Targets, from which my country, Togo, benefits as a pilot country.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“In that context, my country welcomes the work under way in the Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes and encourages all stakeholders to engage in developing such a legal instrument. Beyond the military response, we are fully aware that the fight against terrorism also depends on the degree of trust between the army and the population and between the latter and the Government. We therefore work daily to combat the root causes of the spread of violent extremism, which fuels terrorism. Togo also took innovative and multisectoral measures, as set out in its strategy document to combat violent extremism, adopted on 1 July.”
2022-09-24 · UN General Assembly · General Debate, Session 77 (2022)
“The recent terrorist attacks in northern Togo, which left casualties and significant material damage in their wake, demonstrate the increasingly sophisticated means used by the jihadists. That situation is of the utmost concern to my delegation. That is why we welcome the adoption by consensus of the annual progress report of the Open-ended Working Group on Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International and National Security on 29 July. Togo remains firmly committed to combating such criminals and driving them beyond its borders. In that regard, we will never waver. In order to contribute to that pressing goal, Togo hosted the first Pan-African Cybersecurity Summit in Lome on 23 and 24 March. The Lome Declaration resulting from the Summit is a commitment to combating cyberthreats.”
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“The terrorist threat, long confined to the countries of the Sahel, is spreading to the coastal countries on the Atlantic Ocean in West Africa. That is why the President of the Togolese Republic, His Excellency President Faure Essozimna Gnassingbe, has never ceased to invest personally in peace and stability in West Africa, and particularly in the Sahel. That determination has enabled the President of the Republic, as mediator in the crisis between the brotherly countries of Cote d’Ivoire and Mali, to obtain the release of three of the 46 remaining Ivorian soldiers. I would like to encourage all parties to show restraint and patience so that mediation can succeed.”
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“I can assure him of my delegation’s support. I would also like to pay tribute to his predecessor for the work he accomplished in a rather difficult context. On behalf of the President of the Togolese Republic, His Excellency Mr. Faure Essozimna Gnassingbe, I would like to pay a warm tribute to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for his various initiatives to make our Organization more efficient. During its 77 years of existence, the United Nations has worked tirelessly to prevent conflicts and maintain international peace and security. Today the threat to peace has changed. The inter-State conflicts of yesteryear have been replaced by new forms of violence involving actors who are difficult to capture. Africa, spared for the time being, has become a sanctuary for terrorist groups.”
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