” “"Investing in education is certainly preferable to the legal imposition of limits, to artificial corrective measures and drastic policies and to the unacceptable practice of getting rid of foetuses, especially female ones, to reduce the population growth". With these words, mgr. Celestino Migliore, permanent observer of the Holy See, described the state of Africa, as he spoke at the Ecosoc meeting in New York yesterday. In a Europe that, according to projections, by 2050 will have a proportion of old people "like that of Africa in the Sixties" and an African continent with the lowest rate of old people in the world, commented the Vatican delegate, to ensure that Africa may seize this opportunity for economic development, "it must be helped to invest in its human resources and in infrastructure". Especially the education of the young, according to Migliore, can have "a remarkable impact on the population growth". The Vatican delegate also mentioned the forthcoming Global Forum, in Belgium, about migration and development: "There’s no country in the world he said that is not concerned by migration": hence "the interest of all States" in the success of the Forum.” “
