My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.

I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.

The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.

Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.

Information on the Internet must be as free as in the newspapers.

But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability.

The most powerful State in the world, which up to now was relatively protected from terrorist violence, is no longer an inviolable sanctuary.