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DECLARATION DE SAINT-LOUIS - 3ème Edition de l’Université d’été de PEACE / Action Solidaire - 13 au 15 Août 2008
About this event: 3 ème Edition Université d’été de PEACE / Saint-Louis

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DECLARATION OF SAINT-LOUIS - 3rd Edition of L? University D? summer of Interdependent PEACE/Action - 13 at August 15, 2008
Automatically translated into English thanks to WorldLingo
Us young people come from the various countries D? Africa and D? Europe represented: Benign, Cameroun, Congo-Brazzaville, Mali, Niger, Mauritania, Democratic Republic of Congo, Senegal and France.

Taking part in the 3rd Edition of L? University D? Summer of Punt forms African for an Equitable Trade (Interdependent PEACE/Action), held in Saint-Louis (Republic of Senegal) of the 13 at August 15, 2008, placed under the topic “youth vis-a-vis the challenges of the millenium”.

Having become aware of the challenges and stakes which arise for our continent in this beginning of the third millenium, challenges which relate in particular to the various sets of themes:

1. Food safety in Africa: Place and role of African youth;
2. OMD (Objective of the Millenium for the Development): The challenge of the young people;
3. Climatic change: Which behavior to cure it? ;
4. APE (Agreements of Economic Partnership): Dimension development, New strategies of plea.

Have, after having examined, within the framework of work in workshops relating to the sets of themes above, and noted the need D? a widened networking and D? a greater synergy D? action on the level of the African continent, by making more place with youth in the strategies of plea to defend the interests of L? Africa vis-a-vis the current stakes in the world.

Participants in this University D? Summer S? worry on the situation of food Safety in the world in general and in Africa in particular, ask that efforts be made out of matter D? inputs, D? access to the ground and the appropriations, of the control of L? water, D? organization of the agricultural dies and management of the conflicts; so qu? is a final solution found for L? self-sufficiency and the food sovereignty of the African continent in:

? Facilitating L? access of the young people and the women to the ground, and the appropriations;
? Founding preventive and curative measures vis-a-vis the climatic risks;
? Organizing the agricultural dies and by promoting the local products vis-a-vis the competition of the strongly subsidized imported products;
? Reinforcing the technical capabilities of the farmers (country, fishing, stockbreeders).

L? University D? Does summer of Saint-Louis require of African youth, of S? to engage and D?? uvrer for L? attack of the Objectives of the Millenium for the Development D? here 2015. For this purpose, relating to L? Objective 1 (Reduction of L? extreme poverty and of the hunger), the participants recommend the following solutions:
? The promotion of L? entreprenariat of the young people;
? The support of L? State with the actions of the young people;
? The promotion of L? country agriculture;
? L? effective implication of the young people to the catch of the decisions.
For L? Objective 2 of the OMD (To ensure L? primary education for all), the recommendations hereafter were made:
? Removal of L? exploitation of the children, in order to guarantee a primary education for all;
? The installation of inciting measurements, to encourage L? primary education of the children;
? The decentralization of L? primary education in the most moved back zones;
? L? adaptation of L? primary education with our cultural values and morals.
In connection with L? Objective 3 (To promote L? equality of the sexes and L? autonomisation of the women), L? stress was laid on:
? The maintenance of the girls with L? school (positive discrimination);
? Valorization, L? framing and promotion D? economic activities of the women;
? The popularization of the law on the parity and its appropriation by the women.

Moreover, the participants reaffirm that the human activities (Deforestation, uncontrolled urbanization, production of gases for purpose of greenhouse, practise agricultural nondurable, etc) are the principal causes of climatic Change. For this purpose, they put forward the measures D? attenuation of the impacts and D? adaptation to the climatic change below:

? The afforestation by adapted species and the follow-up;
? The sensitizing of the populations to the good environmental conduits;
? The setting in? uvre of the strategies of durable urban development;
? Reduction or the reduction D? emission of gases for purpose of greenhouse;
? Did the popularization of BREAD (Plane D? National action D? Adaptation to the climatic change) and its translation in national languages;
? The promotion of renewable energies;
? L? adoption of the practices D? durable agriculture;
? The methods D? cleansing and of waste processing respectful of L? environment;
? L? durable adjustment of fishings.

Considering what do the problems of the APE (Agreements of Economic Partnership) constitute one of the major stakes for L? economic future of L? Africa, L? University D? be of Saint-Louis 2008 invites young D? to be with C? ur of the strategies of Plea for a renegotiation between L? European union and L? African union, in order to arrive at the signature of the equitable APE which will take into account dimension D? regional integration and the durable development of L? Africa. The strategies selected to this end are:

? L? information and the sensitizing of the populations;
? Reconciliation of the interests of country signatories of the interim agreements with those of the countries not signatories;
? Consolidation and reinforcement of L? African integration;
? The denunciation of the interim agreements;
? The installation of the structures of follow-up and D? alarm;
? L? information of the populations on L? state D? advance of the negotiations of these agreements.

The Third edition of L? University D? does summer reiterate its step in direction of the authorities and the African decision makers for the setting in? uvre of these measures suggested by the young people, and of the strategies or D? other effective actions for L? economic integration and the durable development of the African countries.

Do the participants denounce with last energy, the pressure of L? European union on certain African countries for the signature of the interim agreements, and D? other agreements which involve the cut-price selling or the ecological dumping of our natural resources.

Do the young people reiterate their firm will to take an active part in all the initiatives contributing to construction D? a new vision of the Rebirth African, only able to carry out the safety and the food sovereignty of the continent.

Lastly, the young people wish that the Chief of L? Is State of Senegal, its Excellence Me Abdoulaye WADE, the godfather of their network but also their lawyer auprès D? other chiefs D? State African for qu? a more attentive listening is granted to different associations and antennas from their movements represented in the various countries of the Continent.


Fact in Saint-Louis, on August 15, 2008.
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TRADE/Interdependent Action (Interdependent PEACE/Action)
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Ingrid Bétancourt raconte sa libération
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Ingrid Betancourt tells her release
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Radiant and apparently in good health, Ingrid Betancourt made the account, Wednesday July 2, of her release. Smiling and vêtue of a military lattice, its long cheuveux tied on the nape of the neck, is gotten out the first of the plane which brought it in Bogota, it was thrown in the arms of his/her mother, Yolanda Pulecio, then in those of her husband, Juan Carlos Lecompte.

Shelterer of images

The Franco-Colombian sénatrice told how it itself had been initially misled by the subterfuge used by the soldiers to arrive to his release and that of its fellows-prisoner in the jungle, while being made pass for a humane mission. It paid homage to the Colombian army for very risky” but “impeccable” operation a “.
PRAYER

“Accompany me initially to thank God and the Virgin”, has it says in preamble in front of the apparatus of the Colombian authorities which had transported it with his/her companions at the base of Catam, close to Bogota. “I imagined so much once this moment”, has it says, by thanking in French “you all in the world which accompanied us”.

Soldiers were presented in the form of members of an ONG fictitious supposed to transport the hostages by helicopter towards a camp to meet the new chief of the FARCS there, Alfonso Cano. “This morning when I lifted myself to a height of 4 hours of the morning, we had the hope that one among us would be released soon by an international commission of the Red Cross”, has it says.
When the false humanitarians arrived, Ingrid Betancourt noted that they wore Tee-shirts to the effigy of Che Guevara and believed that they were other elements of the FARCS.

When one has announced to him that it went with her companions being transferred in a