Additionally, ECA, with its development partners such as the World Bank, will support demilitarization efforts by designing and implementing macroeconomic reform and reintegration programmes. These activities will complement the OAU's work in conflict resolution, prevention, and management and will further guarantee the maintenance of peace on this continent. In summary, achievement and maintenance of peace on the African continent will require a different kind of determination and an inexhaustible energy. As soldiers for peace, we must support preventive diplomacy. We must create conditions for development and support solutions that contribute to the continent's socio-economic health, and we must strengthen institutional capacities to deal with conflict.
Conflicts drain precious resources.
Peace should no longer be a stranger to Africa. Each of us has the potential and the civic duty to contribute to peace and resolution of conflicts. We must continue this important work and empower others to assist in gaining and promoting sustainable peace in Africa.