UN General Assembly
2014

of an Ebola epidemic. The Contingency Programme’s objective is essentially to ensure the transparency and accountability of all natural-resource concession and exploitation agreements and to end the nefarious procedures that allowed our country’s forestry and fishery resources to be plundered over the past two years. The Medium-Term Development Programme will be presented to our international partners at a donor conference to be held at the end of this year or early next, and for which we are requesting the essential support of the United Nations and all our multilateral and bilateral partners. As we embark on the challenge of rebuilding Guinea-Bissau anew, we are fully conscious of the problems but filled with a patriotic spirit of collective drive and unity joining all Bissau-Guineans and, in particular, all political actors and sovereign institutions, with full confidence in an inclusive Government that incorporates all political parties represented in our Parliament, as well as civil society and the diaspora. This confidence was significantly enhanced by our national Parliament’s recent unanimous approval of the Government’s programme, which is unprecedented in