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{SPEAKER name="Freda Brown"}
-- for the International Year of the Child.
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{SPEAKER name="Freda Brown"}
It is necessary that we intensify our solidarity
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with the children of Southern Africa.
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An essential part of this struggle
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is also increased solidarity with the children,
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the women, and the people of the front line states:
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Angola, Mozambique, Zambia,
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Botswana, and Tanzania.
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If their struggle can consolidate the independence,
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national sovereignty, democracy, and progressive development
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of their country, it is significant and fitting
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that we hold this roundtable meeting in liberated Angola.
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And it is with deep and sincere affection and appreciation,
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that we greet and thank our dear friends of Angola,
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and their militant organization, OMA, MPLA,
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the government, and President Neto,
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for their generous hospitality,
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and for all that they have done to make it possible to hold this meeting in Luanda.
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{SPEAKER name="Freda Brown"}
Let me repeat the words of the OMA delegate
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at the seminar the WIDF organized last year in Guinea.
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She said with great confidence,
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"Today, we Angolans are the masters of our country."
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"We are the owners of our rituals, the controllers of our destiny,
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and we shall rebuild everything.
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{SPEAKER name="Freda Brown"}
We shall make progress in all fields." [[applause]]
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