He said that he would need the help of the international committee. He accuses the older regime of having taken all the money with them, and he certainly thinks that we should be helpful, and we have already spoken with the United Nations development program, also the World Bank, with the president of the World Bank, the Secretary-General today spoke with him. In fact, we think that not only for Zaire but also for Burundi and Rwanda, for the whole region we need some kind of what I call a mini-Marshall Plan. We need really to mobilize all the resources we can in the international community to help this region. It s very important.
Zaire is very important for the African continent.
There are some who have some concerns about Mr. Kabila, who of course for 32 years was a Marxist and espoused Marxist principles. He s now talking about free market reform. Well, Mr. Kabila has had the views, as you described them, Marxist views in his youth. That was long ago. I think he has learned since then.