| Speech at Seminar
for South-South Cooperation for Decades of People with
Disabilities: An Orientation to APCD, Bangkok 28 July
2005
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Disabilities:
“Persons with disabilities are far from having achieved
equal opportunities while their integration into society is
far from satisfactory. Public awareness as well as public
action campaigns must be our priority to ensure that persons
with disabilities live their lives as integrated part of the
society. I said public awareness and public action because
awareness alone is not enough. There must be action at the
national, regional and international levels.”
“Physical disability must not inhibit one’s potential
to excel. Given the opportunities and the right facilities,
we see them excel academically, socially, economically, and
athletically. I want to see this as a norm not an exception
in all communities.”
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