Clinton Presses African Leaders to Abandon Qaddafi

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Source: The New York Times

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton bluntly warned African leaders on Monday that authoritarian governments ruled by aging despots were “no longer acceptable,” saying that those who refused democratic reforms would find themselves “on the wrong side of history.”

She also urged the African Union to end its lingering relations with Libya’s leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. American officials have been deeply frustrated by the union’s efforts to mediate on behalf of Colonel Qaddafi, who for decades lavished support on African leaders — many of them autocratic — and led the union itself two years ago.

She also called for a peaceful resolution of the fighting that has flared in Sudan ahead of the planned declaration of independence by South Sudan on July 9. The violence — in the disputed territory of Abyei and increasingly in other regions along what will be the new be the new border — has threatened to unravel a peaceful separation that the Obama administration worked feverishly to ensure over the last year. Mrs. Clinton called the recent fight “deeply troubling.”

Talks aimed at resolving the dispute over Abyei took place in Addis Ababa over the last two days with Sudan’s president, Omar al-Bashir, in attendance. According to an American diplomat, Mr. Bashir agreed to withdraw his forces from the Abyei area before July 9, but the offer was heavily conditioned and no final agreement was announced. Mrs. Clinton, on a five-day, three-country visit focused on trade and economic assistance to Africa, became the first secretary of state to address a session of the African Union, the regional organization that was created in 2002 and represents 53 nations on the continent, lacking only Morocco.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/world/africa/14diplomacy.html

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1. If Hillary had have one the last election

there would have been 16 years of rule by two families dynasties in the US - despots hey.

Pretty sure two of those terms weren't even democratically elected.

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2. Different speech from when she attacked "Chinese colonialism"?