Hello. I'm standing here in front of some
of the remnants of the infamous Berlin
Wall. And this is a good place to kick
off the USAID Democracy Campaign.
For coming months you're gonna hear about the importance of democracy and our work
at USAID. You know, we believe the purpose
of foreign assistance must be ending
it's very need to exist. And we also
believe that when countries are willing
to do the difficult things that are
necessary for their journey to
self-reliance, well we should walk with
them along the way. It's not possible for
a country to be truly self-reliant
unless it has citizen-centered, citizen-
responsive governance, democracy. And so we're going to over the next several
months highlight the ways in which we
can strengthen democracy.
