የባርባዶስ ጠቅላይ ሚኒስትር ሚያ ሞተሊ በሕዳሴው ግድብ ምረቃ ላይ ያስተላለፉት መልዕክት — Transcript

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1. 0:00Your Excellency Prime Minister Abi
2. 0:02Ahmed, my dear brother and Mrs. Ahmed,
3. 0:07distinguished heads of state and heads
4. 0:10of government of Africa,
5. 0:12distinguished guests
6. 0:14of the people of Ethiopia.
7. 0:20If this was to achieve simply
8. 0:24the provision of water and energy to the
9. 0:27people of Ethiopia and surrounding
10. 0:30countries,
11. 0:32it would be a marvel of history,
12. 0:36a marvel of engineering
13. 0:40and a boon for the prosperity of the
14. 0:44people of this region.
15. 0:48But if we are to be honest,
16. 0:52it is not simply the achievement
17. 0:55of what has been done here for the
18. 0:57provision of water and energy
19. 0:59and the catalytic effect that it will
20. 1:02have on economic and social development
21. 1:04and security.
22. 1:07But it is the journey
23. 1:10above all else. The journey.
24. 1:14The journey of a people
25. 1:16who have remained proud throughout
26. 1:18history.
27. 1:20Who have attested that the origins are
28. 1:23here
29. 1:25and who have defied all attempts
30. 1:30all attempts
31. 1:32to keep them down.
32. 1:35When we
33. 1:38when we toured the facility
34. 1:42in the last few hours, I turned to my
35. 1:45brother and I said, "This is the ADWA
36. 1:50engineering feat."
37. 1:52[Applause]
38. 1:56And I say so for those who do not know,
39. 1:59including many from my own Caribbean
40. 2:01community,
41. 2:03that when the international world
42. 2:06determined
43. 2:08that this project was not to see the
44. 2:10light of day, that it was not to receive
45. 2:13the financing of companies that like to
46. 2:17make money and therefore were usually
47. 2:21only interested in repayments.
48. 2:25that when that befell the people of
49. 2:28Ethiopia,
50. 2:31the people
51. 2:34stood tall and the people determined
52. 2:40that this project was not beyond them
53. 2:43and that it was going to see the light
54. 2:46of day. Even if it meant that every
55. 2:49person who could give, however small,
56. 2:52however large, could do so. And even if
57. 2:56it meant that it would take much longer
58. 2:59than it would otherwise have taken to
59. 3:01build, the people of Ethiopia stood tall
60. 3:06and put their money where their mouth
61. 3:08is. And $5 billion later, we have the
62. 3:14prospect of a project that will speak
63. 3:18not just to the prosperity and stability
64. 3:21of the people of this country and
65. 3:24surrounding countries,
66. 3:26but it also speaks to what can always
67. 3:31remain within our grips and remain
68. 3:33possible as people of Africa and African
69. 3:36origin.
70. 3:41on behalf of my own country, Barbados,
71. 3:45on behalf of the Caribbean community,
72. 3:49on behalf of the sixth region of the
73. 3:52Africa Union, the diaspora,
74. 3:54I stand here today to say that you have
75. 3:58opened our eyes and you have excited the
76. 4:01sensibilities that we have.
77. 4:04And we know that if ever there was a
78. 4:06time for those sensibilities to be
79. 4:09awoken
80. 4:10and if ever there was a time for us to
81. 4:13understand our possibilities,
82. 4:16it is now when the world seems not to be
83. 4:20able to find itself and to create the
84. 4:22opportunities for ordinary people
85. 4:25because a few are dominating and others
86. 4:28are determined to ensure
87. 4:32that while some dominate. We are not
88. 4:36going to be victims of our time, but we
89. 4:39can be shapers of our destiny or as I
90. 4:42say as we say in Barbados in our anthem,
91. 4:45firm craftsmen of our fate.
92. 4:52Ada told us in the Caribbean what was
93. 4:56possible if we bound together and
94. 5:00created that great Panaffrican movement
95. 5:03that led to our independence as nations.
96. 5:07that led to our understanding that the
97. 5:10language of Marcus Messiah Garvey
98. 5:13delivered on the 1st of October 1937
99. 5:17that we must emancipate ourselves
100. 5:20mentally.
101. 5:21Ada taught us that these things were
102. 5:23possible and we have seen what we have
103. 5:27achieved over the course of the last
104. 5:30century. I pray today that as we leave
105. 5:33here that we will see the awakening of
106. 5:38Africa, not just in this part of Africa
107. 5:42but the entire continent and its
108. 5:44diaspora. Because this is evidence that
109. 5:48when we work together, anything is
110. 5:50possible. In my own country, we have a
111. 5:53simple saying that inspires the efforts
112. 5:56of ordinary people every day.
113. 6:00And in our dialect it goes like this.
114. 6:03One one blow is kill.
115. 6:07It is a determination that one blow at a
116. 6:10time, one step at a time, one person at
117. 6:13a time, we can achieve so much. I leave
118. 6:17you, the people of Ethiopia today
119. 6:20confident that if we, as I said in
120. 6:23Algeria last week, can rise to the
121. 6:26occasion of working together, then this
122. 6:30continent and its people and its
123. 6:33diaspora that will be responsible for
124. 6:36one quarter of the world's population
125. 6:39that has given us a demographic dividend
126. 6:41that no other continent is now giving
127. 6:43us. that we know that you can rise, we
128. 6:48can rise, and that we shall be the
129. 6:51humanizing element that the world needs
130. 6:54now more than ever. Let us go forward in
131. 6:57love, in unity, one aim, one purpose,
132. 7:01one destiny. Congratulations to the
133. 7:04people of Ethiopia. Thank you.
134. 7:22Thank you, excellencies. We might have
135. 7:24an Air Force flyover during the course
136. 7:27of the program.