Clinton Pitches India As Model For Africa
NAIROBI (AFP)--U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday hailed
India as a model of democracy for the developing world as she campaigned in
Africa for better governance.
Clinton was speaking to students in Kenya, where politics remain tense after a
hotly disputed election triggered street violence until a power-sharing deal was
reached in February 2008.
Clinton told the students that India's billion plus people also had strong
political differences.
"But they have figured out how to run an election where the results can be
surprising and unpredicted but accepted," she said at the University of Nairobi.
"I said only half-jokingly after our problems with our 2000 election, and then
our 2004 elections in some of our constituencies, that we should outsource our
elections to India," she said.
Clinton last month visited India where she called for greater cooperation
between the world's two largest democracies on a range of global issues.
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