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Africa Summit 2022: President Tshisekedi calls on foreign entrepreneurs to come and invest in the DRC
Bymukendi
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"Do not consider our weaknesses but our desire for change", this is the key word to remember from the speech that the President of the Republic gave during his speech on Tuesday, October 18, 2022, in London, on the occasion of the summit on Africa organized annually by the Financial Times (FT).
This foundation to which the FT suits the influential leaders of this world has been enhanced this year by the presence of Félix Antoine Tshisekedi, also present as Honorary President of the AU, the pan-African organization, current president of CEEAC and SADC, two major sub-regional organizations on the continent.
According to a presidential press dispatch consulted by RTNC.CD, Félix Antoine Tshisekedi returned to the issues and challenges facing the DRC under its presidency.
The causes of the war of aggression imposed on it by Rwanda via the M23 terrorists. The issue of environmental preservation, the business climate, investment opportunities, the opportunities offered in the green economy, a way for him to give appropriate answers to the theme raised at this summit.
Regarding the presence of the M23 terrorists in Bunagana, as he had done at the United Nations tribune, the Financial Times guest did not go there from the back of the spoon by calling once again to the international community, which is slow to weigh its weight to resolve this security crisis inherited from the reception on Congolese soil, Rwandan refugees who had fled the war at home, with the harmful
According to the same source, Félix Tshisekedi also did not mince his words when it was time to defend the ongoing process of the allocation of oil and gas blocks, which is not unanimous among environmentalists and other activists fighting against climate change. The DRC, he said, is the solution country and is committed to this vocation. On the other hand, its populations have the right, as is the case, for example, in Gabon and Norway, to benefit from its natural resources, as long as the authorities respect the conventions established in this field and no law, be it is international, prohibited.
On the same path, the President of the Republic did not fail to reassure those whose doubts remain about the supposed absence of the business climate. It is the first to come who are served first, he said, as if to say that the instability conveyed by some media to discourage investors is not fully founded. While some are hesitating, he says, the country is really on the way to recovery, through large-scale projects in the field of agro-industry, energy and strategic minerals that enter into the manufacture of batteries for electric vehicles, for example.
The Head of State also marked his intervention by highlighting his desire to put good governance at the heart of his political action. He named cited the case of telecommunications companies that are currently being hunted, because of the tax evasion they have shown for years and that cause the Congolese state to lose billions of dollars annually. President Tshisekedi is determined to put an end to it to definitively break with the defects of past regimes.
This afternoon, the Head of State's agenda includes two interviews, one with the BBC and the other with the Times.
It is worth recalling that President Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo has been staying in London since Monday with a strong delegation.
The longer this goes on and the more we see of him overseas spruiking the wonderful land of the DRC as an investment opportunity the more I see him as nothing more than typical blow hard politician.
