Togo's Foreign Minister Addresses UNGA on Reparations, Global Justice, and Development

Togo's Progress and Development

• 🇹🇬 Togo has made significant progress, integrating Agenda 2030 into its public policy through a roadmap focused on social, economic, environmental development, and governance.
• 📈 Reforms in public finance management, public investment, and digitization of tax and customs procedures have increased tax revenue.
• 🏥 Healthcare access has expanded to 96% of the territory, with universal health coverage for 3 million people.
• 💧 Access to drinking water has increased significantly, and electricity access has improved, reducing dependency on external sources.
• 📉 Poverty has been reduced to 24% of the population, and agricultural income has seen a 32% increase in key sectors.
• 🌊 Coastal erosion has been addressed, and road infrastructure has been improved, contributing to accelerated economic growth of 7% in 2025.

The Call for Reparations and Justice

• 🌍 The UN's 80th anniversary is a moment to reflect on progress and usher in a fairer world, addressing the need to change an international order imposed decades ago.
• ✊ Africa is calling for justice and redress due to historical injustices including resource pillaging, slavery, and colonialism.
• 🏛️ Africa demands justice for its cultural heritage in foreign museums, human remains outside the continent, and its overlooked contribution to defeating fascism.
• 🗣️ Africa demands justice for its exclusion from global decision-making bodies and for its people who continue to face racism and humiliation.
• 🗺️ The Mercator projection distorts the size of Africa, reducing it to half its actual size, highlighting the need to decolonize geography and create a new political map of Africa.
• ⚖️ Togo has classified slavery, deportation, and colonization as crimes against humanity and genocide against the people of Africa.

Reforming Global Governance

• 🕊️ Reparations for past injustices are crucial for restoring peace and repairing relationships between civilizations.
• 🤝 Reparations should include tangible actions, sustainable investment in education, infrastructure, and health, and restructuring of global trade and financial systems.
• 🌐 Reform of the UN Security Council is essential for granting permanent seats to Africa, reflecting dignity, justice, and current global inequalities.
• 🌍 Africa has been overlooked in global governance structures for 80 years, and it is time to remedy this injustice through reparations.
• ✊ The call for reparations is a struggle for humankind to ensure that past injustices do not shape present inequalities.
• 🇺🇳 The UN must classify the transatlantic slave trade, colonization, and deportation as crimes of genocide against the peoples of Africa.