UN General Assembly
1990

On this soil, fertilised by the ideas of progress and openness to the problems of the world - as we can see from the considerable number of international conferences held in Brazzaville - poets, historians, men of letters, theatre people and talented researchers disseminate, in their works, ideas to improve self-awareness and knowledge of the national and international political, economic and socio-cultural environments. Thus equipped, young people and workers in the city and in the countryside long ago organised themselves into associations to make their voices heard in the quest for solutions to our country's problems and to defend their interests. Today we are witnessing a flowering of the values which are likely to stimulate private initiative, especially in the economic field, where the liberalisation measures in force for some years now have created a favourable framework for domestic and foreign private investment. These measures will lend greater vitality to the democratic values which are already rooted in all strata of society in my country.