“A Crowning Achievement”
Speaking to the assembled crowd, Chadian President Idriss Déby said, “This 10th of October 2003, a day that we have been looking forward to for so long, is historic because it commemorates the successful culmination and crowning achievement of a long drawn out struggle.” He made the point that the project will help in, “...establishing national infrastructures, accelerating rural development, modernizing agriculture and herding and increasing their outputs, promoting national companies, ensuring the good functioning and the performance of the government, guaranteeing the social well-being of our people, in short, enabling at last the socio-economical takeoff of Chad while offering the chance of a decent life to future generations.”

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