Speech by President Khama at COP21 Summit
Tuesday, December 01, 2015
The scourge of extremism and terrorism has created a path of death and destruction of many lives and property. We have witnessed many incidents of these crimes against humanity across the globe.
More recently men, women and children were killed for example to mention a few in Tunisia, Mali, Cameroon, Lebanon as well as the downing of a Russian commercial airliner and continuing acts of terrorism in Nigeria
It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...