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.... ....   Home  |  Cover Stories  |  National Newsreel  |  Politics  |  Business  |  Sports  |  World  | Contact Towards a better life for the people Search The Archives   Cover Stories National News South West Niger Delta South East North Politics Business Sports World Viewpoints Features   ..... NATIONAL NEWS Nigeria's foreign policy aimed at making home for all Africans — OBASANJO By Ikechukwu Eze Friday, July 23, 2004 LAGOS — PRESIDENT Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday declared that Nigeria’s leading position on the continent makes it  imperative that she should pursue a foreign policy that would make the county it serve as  home to all Africans and Africans in  diaspora. He said that the decision to grant asylum to former president Charles Taylor helped bring an end to the war in Liberia. “I believe that if we hadn’t brought Charles Taylor here there would still be bloodbath in Liberia.”  The president who stated this  in Lagos at a public presentation of a book in honour of Foreign minister Ambassador Oluyemi Adeniji challenged all Nigerians  to contribute meaningfully towards the success of the nation’s foreign policy. Reacting to an earlier remark by the celebrant Amb. Adeniji on the relationship between foreign and domestic policy the  president said:” I like the thing you said about foreign policy being anchored on domestic policy. The way I see it is that there is  a symbiotic relationship between the two and they feed off themselves. If domestic policy is good, foreign policy will also be  good. “ What we should be asking ourselves is what will be the place of Nigeria in a globalised world. If you say we go for beneficial  concentricism I will agree with that but I think we have to elaborate on that... All of us must be involved. We must understand it  and we must in fact generally have a concensus, a concensus we must all go by. What should be the role of Nigeria in Africa and  how should Africans in diaspora see Nigeria... They should be able to look up to a country in the world that they can call a  home.” The president recalled that Nigeria had always fought for the emancipation of Africa adding that that informed the decision to  hold the first Commonwealth leaders summit outside London in Nigeria. He said: “When I was military head of state we invited Gen Malloum of Chad so that there will be peace in Chad. He lived here  for years and in that period he had 22 children. It is either that people don’t know that or they have forgotten. Siad Barre died in  this country. People don’t know that or they have forgotten.”   Home  |  Cover Stories  |  National Newsreel  |  Politics  |  Business  |  Sports  |  World  | Contact © 1998- 2004. Vanguard Media Ltd.

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