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To successfully explore, judiciously exploit and effectively protect our maritime resources we will have to<br />

strengthen ties of friendship and cooperation with South Africa, India and China. It's a win-win partnership.<br />

The future is not bleak if we have the will to do what is right. For too long we have been blind to the mess<br />

resulting from our greed. Our planet is in danger and things will deteriorate if we do not change course. A new<br />

thinking heart and fresh thinking based on solidarity and sharing will help us out of the morass. It can no more<br />

be business as usual.<br />

Allow me to end my speech with a prayer found in my latest creation, a rewriting of Romeo and Juliet as<br />

“Ramdeo ek Ziliet”, written in the national language of the Maritime Republic of Mauritius in which Friar<br />

Lawrence is replaced by Sheik Sufi who says his prayer thus:<br />

(First in the national language)<br />

O Bondie Lamour-Pardon<br />

dir tou bann zenerasion<br />

toulezour met dan later<br />

enn lagren ousa enn plant<br />

pou dir nou Mama-Papa<br />

ki nou bien sagren erer<br />

ki finn fer zoli zarden<br />

vinn dezer ek simitier.<br />

Thank you!<br />

09.06.2012<br />

(Now in English, the official language)<br />

God of Love and Mercy<br />

tell the people of the world<br />

to put a seed in the soil<br />

every day or plant a tree<br />

as a way of saying to Mother-Father<br />

we're sorry, really sorry<br />

to have turned a garden<br />

into a desert, a graveyard.<br />

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