UN General Assembly
2011

of the Tarrafal concentration camp on the island of Santiago as a World Heritage site. Those who know us know that we are a country concerned with development. We do not settle for being middle-income country. We need the partnership with the international community to fulfil our destiny. In Cape Verde’s transformational agenda, we have identified five pillars of our country’s growth and poverty reduction strategy: promotion of effective governance, strengthening human development, confronting the structural and social challenges arising from competitiveness, and investment in infrastructure for improving social cohesion. Cape Verde is developing a foreign policy that favours democracy, justice, peace, cooperation and sustainable development. We look at the planet as the home of all, respecting the sovereignty and will of the people while emphasizing the global convergence in the core of humankind. We are therefore concerned about hunger in the Horn of Africa. We are concerned that thousands of children die in Africa every day from hunger. I am concerned that that does not motivate a stronger international intervention, since the