INDEPENDENCE IS IRRESISTIBLE TREND OF TIMES

 

The ever-increasing high-handed and arbitrary practices by the U.S. seeking hegemony in Africa has touched off ever-increasing denunciation and rebuff by the countries in the region.

South Africa, the chair country of BRICS, this year, commenting on the U.S. concerns over the naval, joint military exercises his country planned to stage together with China and Russia in the waters off its country in January, officially clarified its stand during the U.S. Treasury Secretary's visit to the country that the exercises are natural and independent activities for the development of the relations with China and Russia. South Africa staged the joint military exercises in the February 17-27 period as scheduled and is making positive efforts for the successful host of the BRICS summit slated for in August this year despite the issuance of the warrant of arrest for President Putin by the International Criminal Court.

A member of the parliament of Ghana, concerning the U.S. vice-president's demanding the Ghanaian government ensure the rights to homosexuals, asserted that "the human rights record of the U.S. Vice-president and his country are stunning and there is nothing for Ghanaians to learn from it".

The leader of the Social Party of Zambia said that what the U.S. seeks in Africa is its geo-political and economic interests, not democracy and human rights. It's for them, not for us.

The independent stand of the African countries rejecting high-handed and arbitrary practices of a specified big power and aspiring after the establishment of a just international order is clearly evidenced by their efforts to solve all issues to suit to their specific situations and to meet their own interests.

At the 36th ordinary session of the assembly of heads of state and government of the African Union held in Addis Ababa in February this year the chairman of the Union Committee appraised the achievements made in the work of defusing civil wars and political instability in Ethiopia, Sudan and Libya last year, in compliance with the principle of "solution of African issues by Africans", and called on the UN Security Council to set right the present international order of excluding Africa.

The situation proves that the U.S. high-handed and arbitrary practices based on hegemony do not work on the African continent.

The French newspaper Le Monde in an article titled "The end of domination over Africa, switch over to independent Africa" analyzed the recent situation in Africa and concluded that a new era is coming to the continent by the vigorous struggle of the regional countries under the slogan of "Africa by Africans".

The more desperate efforts the U.S. makes to maintain the outdated international order, the more glaringly it will expose its poor plight, and it moves to seize African countries will face failure thanks to the growing desire and awareness of the regional countries for independence. -0-

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