3rd Extraordinary Session of the AU Conference of Ministers of trade: remarks by Mr. Abdoulie Janneh, UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Secretary of the ECA/ by Abdoulie Janneh.

Abstract

This remarks delivered by Mr. Abdoulie Janneh, UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Secretary of the ECA at the third Extraordinary Session of the AU Conference of Ministers of Trade. Mr. Janneh, on his remarks highlighted that, The ECA and the UN in general recognizes the Doha Round as an indispensable platform through which the marginalization of Africa in the global trade could be addressed. It is for this reason that the ECA continues to invest heavily in supporting African countries in their efforts to scale up their active engagement in the trade negotiations process in Geneva. The African Trade Policy Centre, through the generous support of the Canadian and Danish Governments continues to implement programmes and activities that support African negotiators in Geneva and Senior Officials from the Capitals. The ECA promotes it as an accepted framework through which obstacles to intra African and international trade could be addressed. That is why in our repositioning of the ECA, we treat regional integration as a key pillar for Africa's development.