Statement to the Ministerial Meeting on Refugees, Returnees and Displaced Persons

"The time has now come for us to stop looking for scapegoats to the problems in our Continent. Even though the temptations for us is to blame everyone but ourselves for the problems in our Continent, we need to move beyond putting the blame of everything bad in the Continent on others and to look inwards to identify the source of the problems and the solutions of these problems." - Dr. Salim, December, 1998