LITERESI BILENG AVANSE - boukie banane
LITERESI BILENG AVANSE - boukie banane
LITERESI BILENG AVANSE - boukie banane
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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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