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“We will wait about three or four decades until we see genuine, natural situations emerge. Maybe more, maybe more — who knows.”
Source: Interview with Jane Dutton, Talk to Al Jazeera, broadcast 22 February 2010
Context Asked when Eritrea would hold national elections, none having been held since independence in 1993 and the 1997 constitution never having been implemented.
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