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>> i'm sorry. just leave it, it's ok. ♪ pres. biden: mr. president, thank you very much. it's good to see you again. thank you for having here today. i mean that sincerely. i joked with you earlier when i said we bidens are like poor relatives. we show up when we are invited, stay longer than we should, eat all your food. you've been very generous and hospitable, thank you. i'm proud, very proud to be the first american president to visit angola, and i'm deeply proud of everything we've done together to transform our partnership thus far. there is so much ahead of us, so

much we can do. the results so far speak for themselves. building an ocean access railway -- ocean-to-ocean access railway that will connect the continents from west to east for the first time in history. investing in solar energy projects and helping angola generate 75% of its clean energy by next year. by next year. upgrading the internet and communications infrastructure to connect all of angola's high- speed networks. as we are doing that at home ourselves, i can. what franklin roosevelt -- i compare it to when franklin roosevelt took electricity to rural america. didn't exist in rural america. government provided it. well, it's hard to get by these days in business or ranching or anything else without access to the internet. it's critical. and -- exceeds me -- increasing our agricultural election so

angola -- agricultural production so angolans can feed themselves, and quite frankly, the rest of the world, and make a profit doing it, providing opportunity and muscle to your economy. increasing agricultural production so that angolans, like i said, can not only feed themselves, but it's hard for people in a country that has the borders of the pacific ocean and atlantic ocean to understand that it is hard to get a product from one country to another in badly need of agricultural products, but you can't get there. you not only help those people, but you help yourself and you help your economy. you have heard me say before, mr. president, the united states is all in on africa. all in on africa. and i think a testament to that, when i saw you and i made public before, you heard me say it

before, but the united states is all in, all in on angola. we already, my administration alone, invested $3 billion in angola thus far. the future of the world is here in africa and angola. during this visit i look for to discussing how we keep ensuring democracy delivers for people because if they don't think it's a democracy, they don't think they are in on a deal, they don't think they are part of it. and you have been working very hard to establish good democracy . secondly, how can we help build strong ties between our businesses and nations and our people? there is a lot to say on this. we are prepared -- we are well on the way to answer a lot of the questions, but i think you should understand the extent to which we are prepared to be engaged. as i said to the president, ours is not -- we don't think because

we are bigger and we are more powerful that we are smarter. we don't think we have all the answers. we're prepared to hear your answers to the needs you have, particularly answers to international debt financing and a whole range of other things i am prepared to discuss. i want to thank you very much for your personal welcome. i want to thank all of your colleagues are treating us so well. and i mean it from the bottom of my heart, the future of the world is in africa. that's not hyperbole. it's going to be a billion people very shortly in this continent, very diverse continent. and in another 20 years you will be the largest country in the world --continent in the world. need you to succeed. the more you succeed, the more we succeed, the more the world succeeds. so thank you for being willing to have me and willing to talk

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