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During his address to the French diplomatic corps on 16th of January, President Sarkozy gave a broad overview of important international matters. 
With regard to the Great Lakes region, Nicolas Sarkozy made the following declaration: “violence has been unleashed. The military option will not offer any solution to basic problems, which have arisen in a recurrent manner over the last ten years. This includes the question of the future of Rwanda,

with which France has resumed dialogue, a country with a dynamic demography and a small surface area. This leads to the question of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a country with an immense surface area and the odd location of mineral wealth on its borders. It is necessary at some time to have dialogue which is not simply an economic dialogue but a structural dialogue:  how, in this region of the world, space and natural resource wealth are shared and we start to understand that geography has its laws, that countries rarely change their address and that it is necessary for us to learn to live next door to one another”.

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