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00:39 First, true to the Rwandan spirit,
00:47 we tried to put up this facility many years ago.
00:55 We failed.
01:00 Not once, not twice, maybe three times.
01:09 But on the fourth trial, we succeeded.
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01:16 Rwandan spirit is in a sense that we have not failed once.
01:28 We have failed many times.
01:31 But we have succeeded many more times than we have failed.
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01:39 And we keep learning from our failures.
01:43 We keep trying.
01:44 Keep failing, but we keep trying.
01:46 And we finally succeed.
01:49 And this is really what happened in the case of this facility.
01:55 And on the fourth attempt, why we succeeded,
02:04 it was also because of the pressure of opportunity
02:10 that was presented to us by the AU offering us
02:16 to host the summit that we are going
02:19 to host in a few days to come.
02:23 This facility, the hotel, the convention center,
02:31 are truly first Rwandan, truly Rwandan.
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02:40 If you saw the dome, many of us were born and housed
02:55 in small hearts like that dome.
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03:00 So it has that connection.
03:03 It has that cultural and emotional attachment.
03:12 So the design, though modern, connects directly
03:18 with that history, with that culture.
03:20 So that's why I'm saying it is truly Rwandan.
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