Hon Speaker, I believe that in my answer concerning the last visit to China, I tried to deal with this matter.
Our comprehensive agreement, which is strategic with China, addresses those kinds of questions.
Our view is that South-South relations, at the economic level, contain within them the desire that the relations we've established with other countries must not be like the relations that were established between us and our former colonisers.
This has been a problem up to this day. For example, the matter of beneficiation to which you refer has not happened. The old method of getting the raw materials and processing it away has been the issue. That is why, when we discussed it with China and with Russia, the question of establishing processing plants here for beneficiation is the issue that we dealt with.
We believe that the changing economic landscape is in favour of this movement; that we are beginning to have more relations. It is important for us as a country and for our own future that these relations are engaged in and entered into with a very clear sense of what we are doing.
We can repeat the past. These countries are not coming to colonise; they are coming to establish relations. It depends on us how we do it. That is why the comprehensive strategic partnership that we have established with China addresses that kind of question, so that we can begin to have economic relations that talk to our priorities: mainly job creation. Thank you.