園田義明めも。

オバマのガーナ訪問も油まみれ。
ルーツ外交を手にした米国はいよいよアフリカへ。

韓国やシンガポールの名前を出して民主主義の重要性を訴えたオバマ。
その背景にはこんなメッセージが込められていたのかも。

汚職だらけのケニアにはなるなよ。
南米ベネズエラの石油怪獣チャベスはもうこりごり。今のホンジュラスを見てみなよ。

特に中共との付き合い方には気をつけろよ。
いざとなったらぶっ壊すからな。


＜関連記事引用＞

Ｗａｔｃｈ・オバマ読解：７月１１日・ガーナでの演説
http://mainichi.jp/select/world/news/20090720ddm012030106000c.html

　（日本語訳）例えばガーナでは、石油が大きな機会を与えてくれる。皆さんも新たな収入源確保に取り組んできた。ただ、石油を新たなカカオにしてはならないのはご承知の通りだ。韓国からシンガポールまで、人とインフラに投資した国が繁栄することは歴史が示している。

　◇「友人」へ真心の助言
　米国初の黒人大統領による初のアフリカ訪問は大いに注目された。ガーナが来年から石油生産を開始するため、英フィナンシャル・タイムズ紙は「石油確保が訪問先選定の理由の一つ」と指摘した。

　だが、オバマ氏はガーナの特産物カカオを例に、単なる原料産出国に成り下がらないよう訴えた。父親や妻の先祖がアフリカ出身であるだけに、アフリカをおもんぱかった発言と受け止められ、ＡＰ通信は「友人に正直であろうとする人のようだ」と評した。


Obama Visits Africa's 'Oil Gulf'
By Emira Woods
July 12, 2009
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090720/woods

Born of a Kenyan economist father, Obama will go not to his ancestral lands but to Ghana, Africa's newest oil state.

Oil was discovered in Ghana just in 2007. A wide swath of the Atlantic's western shores, the area stretching from Morocco to Angola, is becoming Africa's "Oil Gulf." Oil-producing countries in Africa, including those in the oil-rich Gulf of Guinea, now provide 24 percent of US oil imports. Africa has outstripped the Middle East as an oil supplier to America. Increasingly, Africa's oil is being produced offshore.

Off Ghana's deep Atlantic shores, the Texas-based Kosmos Energy already controls the Jubilee Fields, one of the largest oil finds in West Africa in the past decade, which is predicted to hold 1.2 billion barrels of oil. In May 2009 Kosmos began to draw bids for shares of its stake in the oil-rich fields. Global energy players like Chevron Corp, Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell, China National Offshore Oil Company and British Petroleum--all with a focused eye on Africa, and a bloody record on the continent--are beginning to circle like vultures. After all, the deadline for Kosmos energy bids is July 17, a week after Obama's visit to Ghana.

With heightened interest in Africa's oil, the US has moved to strengthen its military (and naval) presence in Africa's Oil Gulf. In October 2008, the US Africa Command was officially established. Transplanting a framework from the Middle East, US military assets would be aimed at securing Africa's oil and seeking so-called terrorists. The US Africa Command claims to "help Africans help themselves." The command lists humanitarian missions like dental clinics, building of schools, wells, etc. What is more opaque is the intent to train and arm proxy militaries that can sustain the United States' addiction to fossil fuels.

Ghanaian human rights and social justice activists are expressing concerns that President Obama's high-profile visit may be a fig leaf for covert plans to further US military expansion in Africa and move the US Africa Command from its current site in Stuttgart to an African base.

Ghanaians and other Africans are clamoring for a new direction in US Africa policy, one based on mutual interests and mutual respect. Can the Obama administration curb the thrust toward a militarized foreign policy by reversing the advance of AFRICOM and US military expansion in Africa? More important, can the Obama administration transfer its rhetorical commitment to a green economy into concrete policies that end our addiction to oil? The long-term impact of Obama's trip to Ghana may well be viewed through the lens of these critical questions.


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The White House - Press Office - Remarks by the President to the Ghanaian Parliament
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-to-the-Ghanaian-Parliament/

So in Ghana, for instance, oil brings great opportunities, and you have been very responsible in preparing for new revenue. But as so many Ghanaians know, oil cannot simply become the new cocoa. From South Korea to Singapore, history shows that countries thrive when they invest in their people and in their infrastructure -- (applause); when they promote multiple export industries, develop a skilled workforce, and create space for small and medium-sized businesses that create jobs.

US seeks to underpin oil supply from Africa
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/12631f44-6f0a-11de-9109-00144feabdc0.html

CNOOC、ガーナ油田の権益取得に意欲
http://iwaisec.translink.co.jp/news/news.html?news_id=132475&tag=

Kosmos Energy
http://www.kosmosenergy.com/index.html

July 15, 2009 Kosmos Energy’s Phase-One Plan of Development for Jubilee Field Approved by Ghanaian Government; First Oil Targeted for Late 2010
http://www.kosmosenergy.com/press/kosmos_PR_071509.pdf


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Obama remains diplomatic on oil and guns
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/in-africa-obama-remains-diplomatic-on-oil-and-guns/article1215704/

Oil Production in Ghana Implications for Economic Development (ARI)
http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/wps/portal/rielcano_eng/Content?WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=/Elcano_in/Zonas_in/International+Economy/ARI104-2008