UN General Assembly
2000

struggle for recovering their legitimate rights, including the right to establish their own independent State with Al-Quds as its capital. Algeria would also like to reaffirm its support for the fraternal Syrian people and its right to recover the occupied Golan. We express our profound satisfaction and pride at Lebanon's regaining its sovereignty over all its territory. Algeria once again reaffirms the need to lift the embargo that has hit the fraternal Iraqi people so hard. We also call for a final lifting of the sanctions that continue to penalize the fraternal peoples of Libya and the Sudan. Africa is undergoing profound changes that are opening up new vistas for the peoples and countries of that continent. Those changes have been brought about by the serious and determined will of Africans to free themselves from the burdens of the past and by their aspiration to join in the process of change that is sweeping our world today. Democracy is gaining ground daily as the mode of governance for the vast majority of societies in Africa. The State of law and