let me be abusive a little bit president macron and start by doing what is necessary on behalf
of the our people people of Zambia because Zambia was more or less used like a guinea pig welcome to
candid Africa truthful and Unapologetic one of the deliverables for this Summit and president
macron is aware I came down here and requested that obviously also the president of China and
that we should ensure that by the time this Summit takes place we'll have delivered the Zambia debt
restructuring project and as that yesterday this is one of the deliverables at this Summit thank
you to China thank you to France for sharing the G20 framework thank you to South Africa for being
the deputy chair for this process and also to all of the countries that in one world or another
supported this process to reach the conclusion it did yesterday and the benefit it will deliver
to other data countries because Zambia was more or less used like a guinea pig and we are now
in this situation and we hope that the lessons of that process can be learned and learned correctly
and be applied to the other processes that will commence the starting I believe uh following this
this Summit but I must also say thank you to the people of Zambia for their patience
we took this project as one of our responsibilities before we formed government
as an opposition party that debt restructuring was a critical deliverable for us and the people of
Zambia were very patient extremely patient pain on the other side because this structural adjustment
the structural processes and if there's one lesson that I want to share with other countries that
leadership is crucial at the country level to be clear of what you want and say so to your people
people may not support everything that's necessary institutional reform
consumption expenditure controls I dare say habits of corruption I enjoyed by many in our countries
and when you put reforms you confront them as well but it's important to be intentional as leaders
and then deliver that to our communities they will go through the pain but they will support
you as Zambians have done that thank you very much to the people let me put context to this
the poverty and climate change we have already argued that these are intertwined
there's no question about it let me draw the first aspect of the connection
even before we talk about financing new financing more financing
when countries are not growing
economically you cannot expect a poor person to carry an additional burden
that is necessary Drive Cross Drive development so poverty actually exacerbates
the climate change mitigation measures I argue and it's very clear
if you are asking your poor people to switch energy sources can they afford from charcoal
to clean lineage they are already stressed so we need to find mechanisms to support
the poor in our countries less privileged I heard this word called poverty the poor but the less
privileged to be able to come through to support the changes that are required to mitigate climate
change negative effects I think that's very very important it's also true to say climate change
on the flip side has imposed new obligations on the less privileged for us as a global Community
to mobilize resources yes but these resources must be invested to help grow the economies
of the less developed countries very important because by doing that we are creating capacity
in those economies to mitigate against climate change and obviously poverty reduction so value
addition not just with the electric vehicle industry that is coming through huge industry
it is important president macron that we look at deliberately in investing in extraction
critical minerals for example in value adding these manuals in country
obviously that will help the growth side of the GDP create jobs business opportunities
for the transactional change in there if I may call it that so I think this must be delivered
as well rather than generic discussions we must dive deep into the envelope and begin
to say these are requirements these are needs these are minimums and it will mutually benefit
as somebody said yesterday not to paralyze the conversation the North and the South it would
definitely be structured properly benefit the north the South and that's not the debate we
must be engaging in but mutuality for greater good for a safe world for a world that we can
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