Council for Afrika asks UN to strike ethical contract with Africa

Accra, Sept. 21, GNA - The Council for Afrika International, a UK-base= d think-tank has renewed its call on the UN General Assembly to declare the 21st Century an Ethical Contract with Africa to promote peace and stability on the Continent. "In the interest of global peace, stability, sustainable prosperity and progress, it is imperative that the United Nations demonstrates principled leadership by rising up to confront the continued and entrenched injustices that are perpetrated against the majority of the African peoples and the security of the African Continent," Dr Koku Adomdza, President of the Council made this known in a statement copied to the Ghana News Agency in Accra.

The statement directed to the 66th General Assembly of the world body in Washington noted that the UN's pretence to be championing the genuine interests of Africa is completely without credit or merit. Dr Adomdza said: 93The porous and cosmetic activities to commemorate the UN's own Declaration of 2011 as the Year for Persons of African Descent underscores the degree to which the UN has made itself irrelevant to the lived experiences of incomparable anguish, torment and daily compromise of the dignity and human rights of millions of Africans.

"Against this backdrop, it is critical that representatives of Afric= a, chosen by the majority of the African people to represent them, ensure that Africa consistently remains a priority business agenda matter for every UN meeting. Dr Adomdza said Africa should be able to boldly declare a non-dependency model of economic advancement driven by Reparations-resource= d Reconstruction Model, human rights-centred and Ethical Foreign Investments. He said Africa is at the crossroads and the 21st Century is decisive for the continent's breakthrough to total justice. Dr Adomdza advocated an unflinchingly loyal and Progressive Patriotic African-centred caucus to win over the UN has become not only reasonable bu= t expedient. This, he said would make it possible for Africans to enjoy the privilege of leadership and not forget the barbaric nature of imperialism, cartel slavery, colonialism, apartheid and post-colonial marginalisation an= d escalation of economic genocide against the continent.

He said the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) was established in 1958 by the UN to promote the economic and social development of Africa and facilitate inter-regional integration and mobilise international co-operation for Africa's economic development. "Fifty years on and with millions of resources poured into it, Afric= a remains deeply entrenched in the tentacles of abject poverty and desperatio= n for its majority citizens." Dr Adomdza alleged that record economic crimes including illegal capital flight out of Africa takes place in the knowledge of the ECA and other regional authorities. "The cardinal responsibility of African Leadership is the successful and conclusive conduct of the African Liberation Mission, central to which is economic emancipation.

"2011 is significant for the African Liberation Process in many ways= , not the least as the beginning of the second decade of the 21st Century 96 the Century for Africa. "The realities of the first decade of the 21st Century including the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Cartel Slave Trade Act in 2007 and 60th Anniversary of the formation of the Breton Woods institutions 96 the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, International Finance Company, the United Nations and its arms and conventions notably the Universal Declaration of Human Rights established that the dreams and torchlight of the African Liberation Process were put out and had hardly made progress in the half-century of African decolonisation. "This has come at great human and financial cost and entails that th= e UN has lost relevance to the African experience. To be relevant and prevent further widening of common ground, the UN needs to strike a New Contract with the Africa Peoples and the African Continent to restore the fundamenta= l human rights, peace and stability to the continent and international relations."

Dr Adomdza said it is important that African representatives attending the UN General Assembly and future UN meetings become acutely aware of the significance of 2011 while not forgetting the colossal selfless sacrifices of the martyrs of the African Liberation Process, who refused to be bribed, brow-beaten, manipulated for petty comforts, even in the face of seeming insurmountable danger.