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DATE=8/16/1999
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
TITLE=CLINTON - AFRICA (L-ONLY)
NUMBER=2-252847
BYLINE=DAVID GOLLUST
DATELINE=WHITE HOUSE
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:
Intro:  In his foreign policy address Monday in Kansas 
City, President Clinton applauded progress toward 
conflict resolution in Africa and urged Congress to 
approve funds the Administration has proposed to help 
African countries develop their own peace-keeping 
capabilities.  VOA's David Gollust reports from the 
White House.
Text:  Mr. Clinton said little-noticed but significant 
progress is being made toward resolving some of 
Africa's most difficult problems.  Addressing the 
convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars - the V-F-W 
- in Kansas City, he urged Congress to provide funds 
to help sustain the gains, which he said are the work 
of the African parties themselves: 
            /// CLINTON ACTUALITY ///
      The African countries don't want the United 
      States to solve their problems or to deploy our 
      military. All they've asked us to do at a small 
      cost is to support their efforts to resolve 
      conflicts on their own, to keep the peace to 
      build better lives for their people and to 
      develop competent militaries. 
            /// END ACT ///
Mr. Clinton cited moves toward democracy in Nigeria 
after 15 years of what he called "misrule" by the 
military, and signs of hope in recent weeks for ending 
the war between Ethiopia and Eritrea. He told the V-F-
W strides being made in Africa don't generate a lot of 
headlines but are none-the-less good news for the 
region and the United States:
            /// CLINTON ACTUALITY TWO ///.
      It means that the largest untapped market for 
      our products in the world - a continent of over 
      700 million people that provides nearly as much 
      oil to us as we get from the Middle East - will 
      now have a chance to develop in freedom and 
      peace and shared prosperity with us and other 
      freedom-loving people.
            /// END ACT ///
Mr. Clinton's request for more than 800-million-
dollars in aid to Africa for the coming year is facing 
substantial cuts in Congress, where Republican 
legislators want to trim nearly two-billion dollars 
overall from the Administration's diplomacy and 
foreign aid budget.  The President told his military-
oriented audience that under-funding the budget for 
diplomacy is as dangerous as under-funding national 
defense. (Signed)
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16-Aug-1999 17:14 PM EDT (16-Aug-1999 2114 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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