What Moved Us Was Not So Much What Would It Do For South Africa, But There Has Been A Great Keenness On The Continent That The Location Of The Pan African Parliament Must Add To Its Credibility. And, So We Said, Fine, It's A Contribution To This Process Of The Democratisation Of The African Continent.

-Thabo Mbeki

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What Moved Us Was Not So Much

Thabo Mbeki

What Moved Us Was Not So Much What Would It Do For South Africa, But There Has Been A Great Keenness On The Continent That The Location Of The Pan African Parliament Must Add To Its Credibility. And, So We Said, Fine, It's A Contribution To This Process Of The Democratisation Of The African Continent.

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I Must Say That, In The First Instance, We Got The Request From Many African Countries Who Said, Look, You People Had Better Host The Parliament. So, The General Feeling Around The Continent Was That It Would Be Better That The Parliament Was Based Here. In Part, Because Of What This Country Has Done With Regard To Establishing A Democratic System, And We Have Responded To That. We Have Said, Fine.

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