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Topic Discussion I
Politics of Hard Choices
Political Transition and Economic Restructuring
Room 5
(14 of 22 pages)
Speaker: [presentation not translated]
Speaker: Thank you, I am from Mozambique, I am a member of one of the largest opposition parties in my country.
Mozambique is among these nations that are living through this transition and this development that we have been
addressing. I wanted to speak about this development. It is important that the development of a strong government
in the process and we have to highlight this. The opposition should be active alongside the government for the
development of the country and the economy and to consolidate democracy. I would like to indicate that we couldn't
go backwards in the process of democracy and education. We have to combat illiteracy in our country. There are
over 15 ½ percent and many of them are women who do not read or write they are illiterate. As you see most
of them are women. We have to support this group and defend their interests. We need to guarantee providing education
and literacy particularly for women. The women are the ones who raise the family and the coming generations. If
we provide for good education then we will be able to pave the way for development on the economic level. This
is the main problem that is faced by my country.
I also wanted to explain that developing countries should provide us with a balanced approach towards assistance.
This assistance should not be provided to a certain sector of society whereas another sector is deprived. All countries
should be provided with such assistance so that there is harmony and equilibrium. Many countries that grant such
assistance do not approach the opposition and thus the opposition are while confronting the government, we believe
that the society as a whole should be developed. I am a parliamentarian, I am a woman, and I feel that I am in
a good situation compared to other women of my country. I can discuss the problems of women and society and parliament.
Many other women do not have such access or such powers. I can also work for developing different sectors of my
country and to safeguard and maintain their achievements. In fact I do not get sufficient assistance. Each time
we have to defend what we have achieve so far. Thank you for this opportunity to express our feelings and feelings
of the opposition. I believe that you will provide assistance to women for they are greatly in need of that. Thank
you.
Chair: Who was going to speak over on this side? No he was first, I am sorry this is the order we are going
in, one, two, three and then you are four. Thank you.
Speaker: Thank you. I am Abdulwahab Al-Gelidi (ph) from the opposition grouping in Yemen. Democracy in Yemen
is similar to democracy in other emerging democracies, it is more advanced on the political level but it does not
achieve the similar or parallel advance on the economic level. For economic difficulties are escalating and citizens
feel that under totalitarian systems the economic life was better than it is under democratic systems. The state
was responsible in those cases for proving many services and for employing graduates as for pluralism today based
on human rights and human freedoms, we feel a degree of freedom. We have two parliamentary elections and now we
are nearing presidential elections and elections of local councils, yet the economic policy did not achieve the
same progress that was achieved on the political level. For when the state gives up or abandons its tasks towards
the citizens, it leaves these functions to the private sector. The private sector in third world societies has
not reached advanced stages. It has reached in advanced industrial countries, and it cannot take the place or replace
the role that was carried out by the state either in the field of education nor services nor social securities.
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